Faculty’s Needs for Library Resources and Services： Faculty-Librarian Collaboration Program in Jinwen University of Science and Technology

• Main Author: 王秀惠
• Other Authors: 吳美美
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61911545705708110792

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 圖書資訊學研究所 === 98 === This research is a case study of faculty-librarian collaboration program in the Jinwen University of Science and Technology (JUST) to understand faculty’s needs for using the library services and resources regarding the implementation of cooperating with librarians to design and integrate the library resources into their curricular and teaching activities. Those teachers who joined the faculty-librarian collaboration program in the JUST are the objects of this research. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are used in this research to analyze data including content analysis, interview and questionnaire survey. Some findings are proposed in this research: (1) Teachers shows positive thinking and feedback to the program. Teachers do hope to integrate the library resources either physical or virtual into their curricular and teaching activities for helping students get acquainted with the resources and services of library. (2) Going beyond the traditional lecturing approach, different teaching methods matching with library resources in the classroom can inspire students’ motivation to learn. (3) Six main reasons for teachers to integrate library resources into their curricular in order: a) let students learn more about library’s resources; b) raise students’ motivation to learn in the class; c) increase the book borrow rate of their own department; d) library’s resources are suitable to be used in the their own class; e) familiar with the library’s resources; f) get extra points regarding to the annual evaluation. (4) The design concepts of integrating library services and resources into teachers’ curricular and teaching activities were from the following five ideas: a) based on the theory of resource-oriented learning; b) referring to other practices in different institutions ; c) according to their own learning process in the past; d) referring to other teachers’ implementation in the JUST; and e) getting ideas from the experiences of attending different contests off campus. Some suggests are proposed based on the findings and results of this research: (1) The manager of library coordinates other Administrative unit to approve the library resources to integrate the teaching the curriculum. (2) Regarding to the library services: a) Librarians should work with faculty to prepare the teaching plan. b) A platform can be established to promote the implementation of integrating library resources into curricular and teaching activities. c) Librarians should walk into the classroom to teach library skills. d) Librarians can work with faculty to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of integrating library resources into the curriculum. e) The JUST Library should continuously implement the system of teacher as a library specialist. f) Librarians should select and collect current suitable collections and resources to support the need of teaching. g) Librarians should assist teachers to design and edit teaching materials. h) Librarians should reinforce the promotion of electronic books. (3) Regarding to the library resources: The library should purchase and collect different kinds of resources to support different teaching needs for teachers.