A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

Appendix

QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS: (10 responses)

Demographics (Please check all that apply):

Are you a

____ K-12 teacher

_5__ Higher Education faculty member

____ K-12 library media specialist

_3__ Curriculum librarian

_6__ Academic librarian in education

____ K-12 Administrator

_1__ Higher Education administrator

_3__ Other (please identify)

State education consultant

Dean of library

K-6 library media specialist/District level library coordinator

Do you consider yourself

_10__ an education information consumer

_10__ an education information developer

_10__ an education information distributor

____ other (please identify)_________________________________

Information Need (Please check all that apply):

For what purposes do you seek education information

_9__ professional development

_7__ curriculum development

_10_ to provide information to client groups

_8__ to support research on education issues

_3__ Other (please identify):

To discover what has already been researched about various topics in order to establish new directions that research in my area (inclusion of students with special needs) might take.

To stay current.

For personal interest

Roles and Responsibilities (Please check all that might apply, selection of a role or responsibility places no obligation on the respondent):

As a potential partner in the United States Education Information Network (USEIN) which of the following roles do you feel are applicable to your profession and/or organization:

_9__ Learn about the National Library of Education (NLE) and of USEIN.

_5__ Promote the goals of NLE and of USEIN.

_7__ Share information about NLE and USEIN with others.

_8__ Assist in providing access to the resources of the NLE to your clients.

_9__ Share resources from your organization and agency with other USEIN partners.

_3__ Assist in developing and implementing strategies for the preservation of education information resources.

_5__ Assist in instructing USEIN partners and education information consumers about electronic and print information tools.

_7__ Serve as a reference service provider for USEIN partners and education information consumers for print and electronic resources.

_3__ Serve as a instructional services provider for USEIN partners and education information consumers for the use of technology in support of education.

_2__ Provide education information content (print, mixed media and/or electronic) to NLE and other USEIN partners.

_4__ Assist in developing new strategies, search techniques and organizational structures for the dissemination of education information to consumers.

_4__ Provide feedback to NLE and USEIN regarding the work of these organizations.

_2__ Assume a leadership role in the development of USEIN.

_1__ Assist in evaluating the work of NLE and USEIN by coordinating the collection of evaluative information from consumers of education information.

_0__ Other (please identify):________________________________

What is the primary role for your organization/profession as a USEIN partner?

Sharing information

The primary role would be as information developers/disseminators.

At the moment providing support and dissemination of NLE and USEIN information. What else we do would depend on how the network takes shape.

Assume a leadership role in the development of USEIN

Support of teacher education program

Serve as a reference services provider of USEIN resources to the students and faculty who use my CMC.

To share the information with constituent groups of the Education Library-Faculty members in the College of Education and Students in the College of Education, and indirectly to local area educators and administrators.

Provide a place/equipment/services for accessing the resources and also teach about the resources to appropriate groups.

User of information

Incentives (Please check all that apply):

Which of the following incentives would persuade or encourage you to become a USEIN partner?

_7__ Opportunity to network with colleagues across entire spectrum of education information providers and consumers.

_5__ Increased communication with other education information network providers.

_6__ Increased access to information about the National Library of Education, the Department of Education and other federal agencies concerned with education.

_6__ Opportunity to plan, participate and/or attend programs focusing on education information.

_3__ Opportunity to promote own organization or agency to the education information community.

_4__ Opportunity to participate in local and regional resource sharing networks.

_5__ Opportunity to receive training in the use of education electronic and print information tools.

_6__ Opportunity to receive training in the use of technology in support of education. _8__ Access to increased information resources for organization’s own clients.

_5__ Access to increased information resources for own needs.

_1__ Opportunity to share responsibilities for preservation of education information with others.

_2__ Opportunity to share responsibilities for organization and dissemination of education information with others.

____ Other (please identify):________________________________

What would be the primary incentive for encouraging your participation in USEIN?

Access to increased information

Gaining information quickly (especially if the search procedures are easy to use).

Training and access to information sources

Opportunity to receive training and access to increased information resources would be equal in my book.

Access to increased information resources in one centralized place.

More information accessible for faculty and students.

Ability to provide more and better resources for my institution’s primary clients.

Access to information and services

What is the greatest barrier to your participation in USEIN?

Time taken away from primary duties. Travel expenses.

Time and human resources to do the work that would be needed.

None-I process print and other media very quickly

Lack of knowledge about the project and reorganization within our organization.

Time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any cost (very small budget)

Travel money to get training so I could provide increased access to increased information. Money to buy hardware to provide increased access

Time

Are there other comments which you would like to make regarding the National Library of Education or the United States Education Information Network?

Thank you for the opportunity to provide information prior to USEIN’s actualization.

This is wonderful planning at the front stage of development. Congratulations!

I think that NLE should concentrate on providing access to the educational information that is already out there. For instance a free ERIC (complete back to 1968? [sic]) database that can be searched on-line. I also think that it should serve as a national archive for educational material including textbook series. It seems to me for the NLE to " provide greater cooperation and resource sharing..." is a bit redundant at this point. We already have state consortiums in place that are doing that. What we need to do is encourage practicing teachers and administrators to use the resources that are already available to them, and to provide the databases free in an on-line environment via readily available hardware in every school in the country. (1 PC workstation located in the board-office downtown is not providing greater access.)

Although I am not familiar with the whole picture of all the resources and activities, I am excited about the opportunities. The parts I left blank on the questionnaire were more because I was not sure of what it committed me to that lack of interest.

Sounds interesting. I’ll be looking for additional information.


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