It has been routinely noted that our students are our most under-used resource. We have gifted students who would be excited by the possibilities of assisting faculty and staff in using IT 4. This subcommittee might recommend ways for majors to maintain a department or course home page. It might suggest ways to use students as IT peer consults in the dorms, or upgrade the level of the help desk in Corrigan. The rapid development of IT and the implications for its use forces the University community to examine how we can both enhance our competitiveness, and yet, retain what is truly unique and precious about the Seton Hall University experience.
Technology removes many of the traditional limitations of time and space.
We may need to be more flexible in the roles we play and accepting of the roles that others may adopt in shaping the future. As more and more initiatives emerge in the competition for funds, we must be more creative in allocating resources to IT and in looking for external funding sources. It would help frame recommendations related to innovative proposals. It has been proposed that a Subcommittee on Library be created and chaired by a librarian. This subcommittee would serve in an advisory capacity to the Library on specific issues of IT and their impact on Library resources, i.e. digital library and the use of labs.