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"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.

I never took a research course so this site helps me organize and understand research concepts so I can figure out what I did in my SLIS career that points to my understanding of these concepts.

Good background article by seminal thinker/researcher in area of information-seeking behavior (T.D. Wilson)

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

We do not expect our learner to travel down our same path as librarian or researcher but to become independent knowledge seekers. There is no right or wrong process of research, although there are many heuristics we can pass on. Applicable use of information requires that we see knowledge acquisition as amorphous and changing. As librarians, so we are too. Let us teach those who come to us our strengths, not our past.

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

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

In my opinion, Information Literacy Instruction is related to the research process and critical thinking skills.

Useful for summarizing state of research on information seeking

Sample portfolio for Comp L

The Web has changed patterns of information weeking, necessitating elaborating on the previous models of information seeking.

Thomas Mann - chapter on Principle of Least Effort (inspired by Zipf's Law of Least Effort) and what most students live by!