The Impact of New York State's School Libraries on Student Achievement and Motivation.

Innovation is the very essence of the American spirit. The innovative process requires identifying a problem, researching it, generating ideas, planning, testing and persisting long enough to find a viable solution to that problem. But what happens along the way? Who supports innovators as they go through the innovation process? On what resources and technologies do innovators depend? We know very little about the factors that contribute to or support inventive thinking and the innovation-creation process. This project explores:

1. what role information seeking skills, resources, and technologies play in supporting that process and related activities,
2. what human and other influences motivate that process and
3. how the public library might support the work of local innovators.