Pilot Project Recruitment

In recruiting faculty/librarians for pilot projects, here is some rough guidance, which we will be able to improve once we know more about what we're providing.

Being a pilot class would involve the following:

• be willing to work with us for at least Fall semester/quarter 2006
• be willing to teach the class on the pilot server instead of the production server (impact: less stable? more new features; have to go through us for support?)
• meet with us (phone meeting is probably adequate) to talk about what functionality we will have available and how they might pilot it
• be willing to let us observe them & their students using our tools
• be willing to have a conversation with us at the end of the term about how it went

The kind of functionality we'd expect to have available this fall (I'm just making this up--we don't know yet):

• being able to add citations directly to a citation list from
• ProQuest
• files uploaded to Sakai?
• URLs?
• embed citation lists in (at least) rich text documents such as syllabi?
• librarian role?
• being able to add links to selected library subscription resources so that students can search independently

That may be a bit too vague, but until we know what functionality we'll be ready to roll out for the fall, it's hard to be more specific.

Ideally, a pilot class would involve the instructor, a librarian, and students all using our new functionality to some extent. I don't know that they all need to "author" citation lists. Just using an authored one will be interesting too.

So you see it's a bit hard for me to write this up with all the unknowns we have at this point. We can't see the target yet, but we know roughly in what direction it lies.

Questions? Suggestions?