ASIS SIG/ED Doctoral Seminar
on Research and Career Development

October 26, 1998

Brigade Room, Pittsburgh Hilton & Towers
Pittsburgh, PA

Organizers: Ingrid Hsieh-Yee and Barbara Wildemuth

Purpose

The purpose of this seminar is to provide a forum in which doctoral candidates and recent doctoral graduates can discuss their research and career plans with more senior researchers. During the half-day seminar, the junior researchers will become acquainted with more senior scholars working in related areas and will have the opportunity to interact with their peers.

Participants

The following junior researchers have been invited to participate:

• Keith Cogdill, "The Information Needs and Information Seeking of Nurse Practitioners"
• Jane Klobas, "A Behavioural Intention Model of Network Information Resource Use"
• Tomas Lipinski, "The Communication of Law in the Digital Environment: Stability and Change within the Concept of Precedent"
• Karen Pettigrew, "The Role of Community Health Nurses in Providing Information and Referral to the Elderly: A Study Based on Social Network Theory"
• David Robins, "Shifts of Focus among Dimensions of User Information Problems as Represented during Interactive Information Retrieval"
• Jin Zhang, "Visual Information Retrieval Environments"

The following senior researchers will be working with them:

• Dan Dabney, to work with Tom Lipinski
• Julie Hurd, to work with Keith Cogdill
• Carol Kuhlthau, to work with Karen Pettigrew
• Xia Lin, to work with Jin Zhang
• Beth Logan, to work with Jane Klobas
• Gary Marchionini, to work with Jin Zhang
• Louise Su, to work with David Robins
• Stuart Sutton, to work with Tomas Lipinski

Agenda