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I have to explain the main models or concepts behind information seeking for Competency J. The commentaries are good because some try to defend, others agree with the writer.

"Build a personal research library. As a graduate student, one of the things you are most likely to be doing at any given time is reading (although you'll note that @j_l_r below recommends not doing all of what's assigned!). You will read articles, book chapters, and entire books much faster than you would have ever thought possible. And unless these articles fall into your area of interest, you might be inclined to forget about them as soon as the seminar meeting is passed. But we'd like to suggest that you begin as early as possible in your studies to build a personal research library. A personal research library is a record of what you've read and what you thought about it. It can be as simple as a citation, a few keywords, and a brief abstract. We'd recommend using Zotero (see Amy's posts on Getting Started with Zotero, parts One and Two) or EndNote, but even a box of 3x5 cards is better than trying to remember that really great essay from your first semester in grad school five years down the road when you're writing your dissertation. A little extra work now will pay big dividends in the future, especially if you change your research project."

I see this as especially important for that e-portfolio I did for library school. I did a lot of extra research because I didn't remember/know where to find many of the articles I had read that would be useful support for my ideas on the competencies.

I see this as especially important for that e-portfolio I did for library school. I did a lot of extra research because I didn't remember/know where to find many of the articles I had read that would be useful support for my ideas on the competencies.

An example of how Diigo is useful for presenting a collection of resources. I used this Book Club in a Bag marketing project for Competency D.

Resources for launching new Book Club in a Bag program at Berkeley Public Library (volunteer project)

This page includes many sites I visited for several different competencies.

Resources for the e-portfolio to be completed in Spring Semester 09 at SJSU/SLIS

Sample portfolio for Comp L

Bloom's Taxonomy

Learning theories along 3 dimensions

Good rundown on all the most prominent researchers on information seeking models

Mooers actually suggested that it was too much trouble to have information because then you'd have to do something about it, and it wasn't about building better databases; his law was adapted to the LIS field to mean the same as the Law of Least Effort. It's an intellectual climate that is the problem. He was pointing to certain specific environments where this is true (such as some companies or laboratories).

Good discussion of Millennials, nature of catalogs and databases, library reference services, and whether these meet the needs of today's students

Learning theory as it developed from behavioralism (Pavlov) and importance in psychotherapy

Discussion of primary vs. secondary sources, and high school vs. college level research papers (basic)

First chapter gives ovrview of what research is and importance to LIS

Collection of resources pertaining to library evaluation