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Research Fellow

Research Areas: libraries and information seeking, education and learning amongst teens and college students, and the internet.

Amy is on a Research Fellowship for one year with the Project. She is also a Doctoral Candidate at Michigan State University. Her dissertation concerns the cognitive affects of online library catalogs as contrasted with digital libraries. She holds an M.A. in Library and Information Science from the University of South Florida and a B.A. in English from The University of Florida.

She has published on topics including usability analyses and electronic reference. She along with other staff on the Internet Scout Project was awarded the Louis Shores-Oryx Reference Award Recipient in 2000. Amy is a co-editor of The Amazing Internet Challenge: How Leading Projects Use Library Skills to Organize the Web published by the American Library Association.

Reports By Amy Tracy Wells, 1 Total:

A Portrait of Early Adopters
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PIP Comments By Amy Tracy Wells, 3 Total:

What is reading?
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Should I Classmate, Mixi or Orkut?
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The Velveteen Rabbit
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