Mary E. Brown, Ph.D., Professor
Information Science

Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent Street, New Haven, CT 06515

Department of Information and Library Science
Fax: 1.203.392-5780 / Phone: 1.203.392-5781
Toll Free: 1-888-500-SCSU, then press 4

My research over the past few decades has, in one way or another, evolved around seeking information in a problematic if not chaotic environment. This has lead to various projects including designing an intelligent database system for chemists and an intelligent tutoring system for naming subject headings, looking at characteristic differences between constructed and existing search terms, and to my most recently completed publication (in press) which centers on exhibits and exhibitions. My current project arose after a semester of observing children (half a day a week) in their school library media center and from observations of pre-verbal children. I am in the process of designing a monograph series for children that is intended to facilitate, if you will, a mental muscle memory of information seeking strategies. The idea is that the monograph will serve as a learning experience that can then be transferred to information problems the child encounters. Learning and transfer experiments are planned with the completed monographs as the research materials.