This study describes the findings from coding the transcripts of personal interviews with associate and full professors within the University of North Carolina's School of Information and Library Science. The interviews were conducted to determine whether and how fully-present states of consciousness, known often as flow states in the literature, occurred in the research process.
A definite pattern was discovered wherein fully-present states of consciousness were occurring, but most often not during the active work of research, such as reading or writing. Rather, flow came to researchers when they would take a break from their work to do something less intellectually demanding. Here they would receive a personal insight on how to proceed with their work. Then the researchers would return to work to address the challenge of how to package what they had synthesized in their flow experience into language that could be understood and accepted by other researchers.Master of Science in Library Scienc
