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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.

The paradigm is all....

A way to organize one's thoughts and writing

Might come in handy when planning an essay or a battleplan for all the comps

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.

Another model for clearly organized and well written portfolio.

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

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

Nicely organized e-portfolio

Collection of resources pertaining to library evaluation

This Diigo group is for fellow SLISers preparing for or enrolled in the culminating project for the Masters in Library and Information Science at San Jose State University, known as LIBR 289, the e-portfolio class. Working on the 14 competencies involved is like slaying a multi-headed Hydra (thus the icon I chose).

Research for each of the 14 competencies will be different for each student on what is a very personal and sometimes lonely journey; nevertheless, some of our research may be inspiring to others, and I hope this group can make it less arduous and less isolated!

Diigo is great for forming interest groups, sharing links, and communicating with each other. I envision this as a helpful tool to go along with the 289 Google group as well as the SLIS Yahoo group. Please use some naming conventions for your tags for the 14 competencies: Competency-A, Competency-B, and so forth. Also give each link another overall tag: 289-e-portfolio. Finally, share it with this group. Please invite fellow students to be part of Diigo and this group if it can be helpful for them.

Evaluation and library decision making By Peter Hernon, Charles R. McClure

Chapter on evaluation

Health on the Net Principles (to evaluate a health web site for authority, complementarity, privacy, attribution, justifiability, transparency, financial disclosure, advertising policy

Sample portfolio for Comp L

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

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.

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