E-mail

San Jose: Clark Hall 418H
Telephone:
  1-408-265-5136

Teaching & Professional Interests

• Database and Other Retrieval Systems
• Electronic Reference Services
• Information Needs and Behaviors / Practices
• Information Retrieval Theory and Practice
• Information and Society / Culture
• Intellectual Freedom and Censorship

Research Interests

• Electronic Reference Services
• History of Information Science
• Information Needs and Behaviors / Practices
• Information Retrieval Theory and Practice
• Intellectual Freedom and Censorship
• Popular Film Theory

Dr. Robert Wagers

Professor Emeritus

Robert Wagers was born and raised in Lodi, California. He explains, "That should explain most of my quirks. " Graduate work in philosophy and history of science led him to librarianship, "mainly to find a job in something I thought I understood."

Dr. Wagers has been at San José State since 1976 and developed the first courses in online searching. He has ridden that hobby horse in his research ever since. With apologies to Tom Lehrer, says Wagers, "I see my objective in life the prolonging of adolescence beyond all previous experience!"

Courses Taught

• > [200] Information and Society
• > [202] Information Retrieval
• > [210] Reference and Information Services
• > [220] Resources & Information Services in Professions and Disciplines
• > [244] Online Searching
• > [245] Advanced Online Searching
• > [266] Collection Management
• > [281] Seminar in Contemporary Issues
• > [285] Research Methods in Library & Information Science
• > [298] Special Studies

Education

• MLS (Librarianship) University of Oregon (1974)
• PhD (History of Science) Univ of Oregon (1973)
• MA (Philosophy) University of Oregon (1970)
• AB (Philosophy) San José State Univ (1964)

Academic & Professional Experience

• Professor, School of Library and Information Science, San José State University (1976-)

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