Brandon Diamond

Questions for Jake Anker:

1.I understand that youre a member of the librarys technical staff; therefore, I was wondering what your vision of the librarys future might be.
2. What technologies would you imagine are the most relevent to these upgrades?
3. What sort of environment is present at your library to fascilitate such a system?
4. Do you have expertise in moderating this particular type of system?
5. How do you envision this systems configuration as working?
6. What sorts of mechanisms would be most useful from an IT perspective?
7. How many operating systems must this solution run on?
8. How would you go about installing such a system?
9. What are your main concerns?
10. What feature is an absolute necessity to you?

Questions for Wilma Enright Drinkwater:

1. How much money is the town willing to spend on this project?
2. How do you expect to use these resources?
3. What sort of monthy/yearly allowance might be attributed to this project?
4. Will a full-time moderator be appointed to oversee the system?
5. What sort of solution are you looking for?
6. How do you imagine this solution might be used?
7. What are your main concerns?
8. What feature is an absolute necessity to you?

Sue Ellen McCarver:

1. I understand that you love the way the library works now, and that you might even be a little hesitant about the changes that this project might usher in. Out of all your concerns, what would be the most important one- in your opinion- for us to consider in designing any new tools?
2. What is it about, say, an index card catalogue that you like best?
3. Is there any way we might try to capture this feel using a computer program?
4. Do you have any issues at all with the manual approach?
5. Might software help resolve these problems, even if it isnt necessarily the traditional way of doing things?
6. Do you have any concerns about the library card holders?
7. How do you think they might benefit from an upgrade?
8. What are some of your other concerns about a new system?
9. What feature is an absolutely necessity to you?