Abstract:
Carol Kuhlthau's (2004) work shows that affect is a vital part of information seeking for high school students and
undergraduates. This article explores the influence of affect on research university faculty. Like beginning information
users, advanced information users are influenced by their confidence, ambition, and interest in their
work. This study employed phenomenological interviews to explore how scholars' willingness to tackle new
areas of research, submit manuscripts to prestigious publications, approach colleagues for collaboration, and
conduct literature searches with tenacity is impacted by their emotions and dispositions.
