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Joyce! Joyce! I need to talk to you for a minute!” I heard one of my journalism professors call after me as I was on my way to class. As the librarian liaison to the Mass Communication & Communication Studies Department at Towson University, I teach public relations, advertising, journalism and communication students how to find, evaluate and use information. The professor continued, “Joyce, I need you to come into my intro class and teach a session.” This was not an unusual request since I usually come into about 40 different communication classes per semester to help those students learn how to research.
What the professor asked for next, however, was unusual. She said, “Joyce, I have students who don’t understand why they need to do research at all. Can you get them to see that research matters?”
