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LRRT Discussion Forum: Building & Sustaining Your Research Agenda
Sunday, January 26, 2014, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Pennsylvania Convention Center 120C
A panel of speakers at various stages of their careers will talk about how they got started with their research and went on to establish productive research agendas, highlighting tips that can help newer researchers be successful. Attendees will also have the opportunity to discuss their own challenges and aspirations and then work together with the panelists to brainstorm strategies for getting and staying on track with their research.
Panelists
John Bertot is Professor and co-director of the Information Policy & Access Center (iPAC) in the University of Maryland College Park iSchool. He is the Editor of Government Information Quarterly and co-Editor of The Library Quarterly. His research spans information and telecommunications policy, e-government, government agency technology planning and evaluation, and library planning and evaluation. His most recent project, funded by IMLS and in partnership with the American Library Association and the International City/County Management Association, is the Digital Inclusion Study (digitalinclusion.umd.edu), which explores the roles of public libraries in building digitally inclusive communities.
Carissa Phillips, Business and Finance Information Librarian and Associate Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Carissa’s past research has focused on students’ development of information literacy skills through participation in experiential learning opportunities. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship, Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian, Communications in Information Literacy, and Reference Services Review. Recently, she has been exploring new research interests in network analysis and text analysis, as applied to digitized historical business texts.
Robin Miller, Research & Instruction/Government Publications Librarian and Assistant Professor at the McIntyre Library, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Robin’s research interests include quantitative and qualitative assessment of student learning outcomes from research assignments, library user experience, and exploration of the links between civic education and ability to find and interpret government documents.