Sense-Making the Information Confluence

Brenda Dervin, who has written a lot on sense-making as a model for how people search for information, is part of a team that will be researching how college students find and use electronic information. The researchers have received a major grant from IMLS to study this topic for the next two years. You can read the project proposal as well as papers and presentations related to the project at the project web site: Sense-Making the Information Confluence. For starters, you may want to check out the following:

• a presentation about the project (PowerPoint)
  
• the grant proposal abstract (PDF)
• the grant proposal narrative (PDF)