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wc12 1/8/2010 13:31:28

General Session - Conference Presentation Only (no formal paper)

//Beth Tillinghast, Univeristy of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, betht@hawaii.edu// //Allie Jordan, Univeristy of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, asjordan@hawaii.edu//
 * University of Hawaii at Manoa Library Review of Student Technology Needs**

Over the past several years, the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) Library has experimented with emerging technologies to better serve student populations. Investigating, learning, adopting, and maintaining these technologies require a great deal of time and resources both of which are challenged by limited budgets and reduced staffing. As a result, it has become essential for the Library to thoroughly assess what services and resources best serve its users and to avoid what Michael Stephens has described as technolust, the “irrational love for new technology combined with unrealistic expectations for the solutions it brings.”

In the fall of 2009, Allie Jordon and Beth Tillinghast, two librarians at UHM Library, surveyed the graduate and undergraduate populations for their campus. The UHM Student Library Technology Surveys were an attempt to accurately evaluate the needs of the student populations there and to provide a concrete assessment of their learning needs and the services and environment the Library could provide to meet those needs.

The authors of the needs assessment surveys will discuss the motivation for conducting the surveys, give a brief overview of their methodology, and will share how their findings will be applied at the UHM Library.

All Audiences student technology needs, library technologies, needs assessment