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Dr. Melissa Gross
Associate Professor
Phone: 850-644-8119
Fax: 850-644-6253
Email: mgross@ci.fsu.edu
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Melissa Gross (Associate Professor) received her PhD and MLS from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998, received the prestigious American Association of University Women Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars in 2001, and the Outstanding Faculty Member Award for 2002-2003. Dr. Gross has published extensively in the areas of information seeking behavior, library program and service evaluation, and information resources for youth. Her teaching interests include research methods, the information needs of children and young adults, reference, and the development and evaluation of information programs and services. Her research specialty is information seeking behavior and concentrates on understanding user information seeking behavior as a basis for the design, evaluation, and improvement of information resources, programs, services, and systems. She is actively working on further explication of the implications and predictive ability of her imposed query model. Other current projects include investigations into the information literacy needs of undergraduates and the HIV/AIDS content of materials developed for a young adult audience.