Project Description
The purpose of the ACCESS Culturally Responsive Resources Repository is to create an interactive, collaborative exchange resource. For the past three years of this K12 school-university partnership, ACCESS has built a wealth of foundational and current resources. This repository will: -Curate community centric resources based on emerging needs, interests, and goals -Plug into and align with other university resources, such as the Institute of Urban Education’s growing archive -Host a workshop to introduce and explore the resources -Provide opportunities to link resources pages with outside sources -Organize and catalog any hard copy books, materials, etc. -Identify tags for items to make them searchable. The methodology of this research involves organizing and cataloguing (qualitative coding) the library materials for student and instructor use.
Tasks and Responsibilites
The student will meet periodically (weekly or biweekly) with committees and other researchers connected with the ACCESS grant and the MLC Library to guide and report on the work. The actual research will involve the following tasks and responsibilities:
1. Data gathering
2. Conduct approximately 4-6 informal interviews on Zoom with stakeholders in the library to identify needs and interests
3. Monitor Google doc1 that will collect community suggestions for materials to be added to the repository(ies)
4. Conduct a literature review of the resources already collected and needed
5. Work with SOE website liaison to design and publish website to promote the library - Curate and program items into a Libib library app
6. Analyze interview data
7. Document preliminary results (e.g., themes from interviews)
8. Identify qualitative themes in the collected resources
9. Combine interview and literature themes to determine library tags
10. Prepare and present report of findings (tags and codes) to ACCESS grant representatives and the MLC Library
If results warrant, the student researcher will write a conference proposal to share findings at local, regional, or national conference
Desired Qualifications
None listed.