Using students as programmers

[Drew, Bill]

I approached one of our computer programming instructors about having some
of his students help us develop a MyLibrary type of service.  It looks like
we will be doing it as a special projects credit for some of his better
students.  Have any of you ever been involved in such an effort using
students?  Was it successful and what should I watch out for?

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Wilfred (Bill) Drew
Associate Librarian, Systems and Reference
SUNY Morrisville College Library
drewwe at morrisville.edu
Home: http://www.morrisville.edu/~drewwe
Not Just Cows: http://www.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/njc/
Library: http://www.morrisville.edu/library/
Have Laptop -- Will Travel.

 "Show me a computer expert that gives a damn, and I'll show you a
librarian." Patricia Wilson Berger (Quoted in Chicago Tribune article, 29
June 1990, Tempo section, p. 1)