Publication Date
2018
Journal or Book Title
The Journal of Academic Librarianship
Abstract
Carol Kuhlthau's (2004) work shows that affect is a vital part of information seeking for high school students and undergraduates. This article explores the influence of affect on research university faculty. Like beginning information users, advanced information users are influenced by their confidence, ambition, and interest in their work. This study employed phenomenological interviews to explore how scholars' willingness to tackle new areas of research, submit manuscripts to prestigious publications, approach colleagues for collaboration, and conduct literature searches with tenacity is impacted by their emotions and dispositions.
ISSN
0099-1333
Author ORCID Identifier
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2018.01.001
Pages
263-268
Volume
44
Issue
2
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Fitzgerald, Sarah Rose, "The Role of Affect in the Information Seeking of Productive Scholars" (2018). The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 107.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2018.01.001
