鄉土教育乃台灣近年來新興的中小學教育課程,然而,由於環境及教師個人因素等,使鄉土教學在課程設計、教材挑選、課堂活動充滿挑戰。本研究目的旨在瞭解鄉土教育教師在工作上會有哪些促發資訊需求的情境,需要什麼資訊,如何尋找與利用。本研究採取質量並重之研究取向,先以質的訪談探索從事台灣鄉土教學的國中小老師於其專業活動中資訊需求與搜尋行為,企圖了解並描述鄉土教學的工作現況與目標 ,接觸資源的動機與行為情境,利用特定文獻資源的種類,以及利用網際網路教學實際遭遇之困難,據此再以進行問卷調查,建立更廣泛性的瞭解。本研究最終目標乃希望協助建立使用者導向之本土化數位圖書館與博物館,以落實其支援鄉土教育與終身學習之目的。
The purpose of this research is to systematically study the information need, seeking, and use behavior of middle school teachers of Taiwan historical resources, and to explore the implications of the findings for digital library system design. This research employs multiple methods, first by qualitative approach followed by quantitative approach. The study investigated elementary and high school teachers, and compared the findings with those of the scholar user group, using literature analysis, deep interview, and questionnaire survey as the methods for data collection, and content analysis, case study, and statistic analysis for data analysis. The results lead to (1) a better understanding of information seeking and use behavior of primary and middle school teachers of Taiwan historical archives; (2) deeper knowledge and empirical data for developing theory on human information behavior of Taiwan local people; (3) identification of important teaching and learning resources on Taiwan and the salient characteristics of those resources; (4) development of information organization guideline for localized digital library and museum systems.