How can you strive to meet the diverse research needs of high school students with limited resources? Check out questions from a case study regarding seniors involved in an in-depth history research project.

1. Collection Assessment
& Development
IS 430 (UCLA)
Sarah Clark
Monday, October 21, 2013

2. Overview of Today
1. Quick Business (15 min)
2. Guest Speaker: Dalena Hunter, UCLA
Bunche Center Library for African American
Studies (70-90 min)
3. Group Led Discussion of Readings (30 min)
4. Case Study: Meeting the Research Needs of
12th Grade History Students (75 min)
5. Closing

3. Review of Guidelines for Group-Led
Discussions
1. In advance, share 2-3 provocative, timely,
interesting articles/videos/etc. with the class.
2. Post critical reviews of the articles or
resources on the Wordpress site.
3. Engage classmates in lively discussion.
4. One group member should act as a scribe
and summarize the discussion, which
should then be posted on the Wordpress
site.

4. Case Study: Research Needs of 12th
Grade History Students
Question: how do
you strive to meet
the diverse
information needs
of high school
students engaged
in in-depth
research when you
are a small library
with limited
resources?
Note: The documents to support this work are
available on the CCLE for your reference.

5. Case Study: Research Needs of 12th
Grade History Students
Instructions:
1. Work in a group of 3-4.
2. You can work where you like
(outside of the room), just be
back by 12:00 pm.
3. Be prepared to share your
work with the class.

6. Case Study: Research Needs of 12th
Grade History Students
Goal: you and your group should
analyze the data available, decide
what else you need to know, and with
what you have, answer the following
questions:
● How well are we meeting the
information needs of these
students?
● How can we evaluate how well we
are meeting their needs?
● What should be our service action
plan?

7. Case Study Debrief
● What were the similarities
and differences between the
solutions each group came
up with?
● What was challenging about
this?
● Did any part of this work
challenge how you think
about library collections and
services?