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==Naresh Agarwal ==
Naresh Agarwal is an Associate Professor and Director of the Information Science & Technology Concentration at the School of Library & Information Science at Simmons University, Boston. Naresh did his computer engineering at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, worked for six years in technology roles in the voice-over-IP, bioInformatics, and digital cinema industries, and earned his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore's Department of Information Systems, School of Computing. Naresh's current research area is information behavior and knowledge management. He has done extensive research on knowledge management and service innovation in libraries. His recent book 'Exploring Context in Information Behavior: Seeker, situation, surroundings, and shared identities' was published by Morgan & Claypool in 2018, and has another book coming up, 'You know the glory, not the story: 25 Journeys towards Ikigai.' Naresh looks at the way people look for information and the contextual factors that impact their choice of information sources. Naresh also studies serendipitous information encountering, and the causes and effects of non-responsive behaviors of smartphone users. He has been a keynote/invited speaker at workshops and conferences in the U.S., South Africa, Japan, France, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Naresh has held various leadership positions at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). He was a member of its Board of Directors, Co-Chaired its Annual Meeting in 2017, and was awarded the ASIS&T James M. Cretsos Leadership Award in 2012. In 2020, he was elected as the President-elect of ASIS&T.
* [https://www.simmons.edu/academics/faculty/naresh-agarwal university page]
* [http://web.simmons.edu/~agarwal personal website]
* [https://youtu.be/NMQxhZCndyk Sep 2020 keynote speech for the Information Seeking in Context conference]
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