One of my goals for my internship at Hardesty Library is to develop a project that demonstrates many of the principles and skills I’ve learned through my LIS classes and my internship. I want a showcase piece that I can include as the keystone of my portfolio. Mr. Escobar asked me to develop plans for three possible [...]
Posts Tagged ‘information services’
Project Projections: Plans A, B and C
Posted in internship, tagged access, book talks, children, collections, genre, information seeking, information services, internship, libraries, OPAC, pathfinders, reader's advisory on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Supermarket Strikes Back
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged comics, information services on March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How can real world stores cope with Amazon’s information services like purchase statistics? How about this?
Skills and Free Will
Posted in Graduate Assistantship, tagged freedom, information seeking, information services, students on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In response to the question, “Can we assume all students are competent at seeking and using information?” In the provision of information services, we cannot assume all students are “competent at seeking and using information.” The age and education level of the students in question have a significant effect on their info seeking abilities. [...]
Thoughts re: Robert Taylor’s Info Seeking Model
Posted in Graduate Assistantship, tagged access, information seeking, information services, library & information studies, models on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In a discussion about Robert S. Taylor’s article “Question-Negotiation and Information Seeking in Libraries,” there was some uncertainty as to whether Taylor is describing information behavior or information seeking. I think at the beginning of the article, when Taylor talks about the various actions a user may engage in before ever coming to the library [...]
