Scholarship

Introduction

Special Project/Leadership

Teaching/Service

Information Management

Networking

Library Knowledge

Final Thoughts

Resume

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Most of the assignments and projects I completed in my ILS courses required extensive research and writing. The one project, however, that most prepared me for my Special Project was the Research Project [opens as .doc file] I completed for ILS 537, Information Seeking Behavior. Scholarly research was not new to me; I had already earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, another one in Journalism and a Master’s in English. However, my experience was over ten years old by the time I began the MLS program.

The project I completed for ILS 537 brought the past and present together. Our objective was to be concerned with information seeking behavior in a crisis situation -- one similar to and as serious as September 11, 2001. I had to dig out very old social science knowledge and hibernating research skills, revive them and then interweave them with my new library and information science skills and knowledge. The project, however, proved thoroughly engaging. I entered the world of information seeking behavior, and found myself in quest of answers to intriguing questions such as what causes people to seek out information, what are some obstacles to the information seeking process and what influences people as they attempt to seek out information? While my final Special Project was not concerned with information seeking behavior, I found my way to information literacy through my research on different information seeking behavior theories, the research process and collaborative information seeking.

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