Students understand the systems and technologies that facilitate the management and use of information resources to serve the diverse needs of users.

II.a Students identify and analyze diverse information needs of individuals and communities.

—6603 Basic Information Sources/Services

This document was a pop quiz to test our speed, efficiency and efficacy in answering a prospective patron’s variety of questions and needs. This exercise includes direct analysis of the queries to understand their very structure in both the grammatical and subtextual sense and finds the materials these questions are asking.

II.b. Students evaluate and select print and digital information resources and systems to meet needs of users.

[This is a place hold for my 6511 Collection Development and Management collection development policy assignment, as a key aspect of that is explaining why information resources were selected.]

II.c. Students understand and use appropriate information technology for information services.

—6711 Organization of Information (core)

The Internet is ever-growing and is highly integrated into modern library and information science, and folksonomies—tags, hashtags, social media and user-made categorizing—is a very important and organic form of information organization which are indicative of non-information-professionals understanding of information organization. Analyzing folksonomies as the above paper does can be crucial to meeting patrons and non-library professionals where they’re at in terms of understanding where to look and how information is categorized, and can give researchers and information professionals an idea of how to organize information to be found in a way conducive to digital-born or internet-using patrons.