Tuesday, June 25
10:20-10:40 AM
PDT
Lecture Theater

School Libraries: Technology Information Resources for Teachers

Brief Paper: New Development ID: 39206
  1. aaa
    Punit Dadlani
    Rutgers University, PhD Student in School of Communication and Information

This pilot study involves 2 focus groups comprised of teachers, librarians, administrators and district directors from 2 New Jersey High Schools discussing the role of the library in their respective school environments. The specific focus of analysis is on how teachers use libraries/librarians to meet their information needs with regards to technology. An additional focus is to identify the constraints (first order and second order barriers) on teachers in meeting their information needs with regards to technology (with the library as the information resource). It was found that teachers use librarians as a central information resource when it comes to technology; various barriers to this information resource are identified . A preliminary typology was constructed that could be used to identify further areas of research on the information needs of teachers with regards to technology in school environments. (this is an abbreviated abstract).

Presider: Angela Rand, University of South Alabama

Topics

Conference attendees are able to comment on papers, view the full text and slides, and attend live presentations. If you are an attendee, please login to get full access.
x