For the LIB 4900 capstone class that I’m teaching this spring, my students are researching various ICTs that are used in the library. You may find yourself getting questions about the following systems and services:
- the remote access system for databases (EZproxy)
- laptop loans (including the self-checkout kiosk)
- desktop computers
- other technology we loan out (graphing calculators, presentation remotes, cameras, clickers, etc.)
In some instances, my students may need to get in touch with the staff who oversee these resources so they can ask them about the history of how these resources been made available in the library. In other instances, they are looking for scholarly journal articles that are about how these systems (or related ones) have been used at college libraries.
If you need more information about the assignments behind these questions, feel free to take a peek at the assignments page on the course website. On the course blog, you can see the research questions they are refining as they work on their final projects.