Amanda Spink is Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania State University. She has a BA (Australian National University); Graduate Diploma of Librarianship (University of New South Wales); MBA (Fordham University), and a PhD in Information Science (Rutgers University). Dr Spink’s research focuses on theoretical and applied studies of human information behavior and interactive information retrieval (IR), including Web and digital libraries studies. The National Science Foundation, Andrew R. Mellon Foundation, NEC, IBM, Excite, FAST and Lockheed Martin have sponsored her research. She has published over 130 journal articles and papers, with many in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Information Processing and Management, Interacting with Computers, and Internet Research.