Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Highlights of a Career in Information Science (Peter Ingwersen) (24 Aug 2004) As a matter of fact, I would have liked to become either an historian or a geologist (like my father), specializing in techniques for dating artifacts and geological events, such as the Carbon 14 test. Instead I graduated in library and information studies at the Royal School of Librarianship in Copenhagen in 1973. My thesis was an empirical study using observation and interviews, as well as quantitative analyses, of the use of catalogs in public libraries in Denmark. That was prior to the online age, so essentially the thesis dealt with the patrons' use of card catalogs, including subject access, and the initial interaction with the librarians when patrons could not find their way. Looking back on these activities some 30 years ago it seems evident that already at that time I liked making quantitative empirical investigations; looking into the processes of retrieval; and digging into the historical perspectives of the objects researched. Article URL: http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-04/ingwersen.html Read 110 more articles from American Society for Information Science sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Supporting Community Inquiry with Digital Resources     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy