The search for “a monk, a strawberry and an information professional”: Exploring strategies for advanced information skills beyond formal continuing professional development.

A brief introduction to how you as an information professional may move from better than average information skills towards advanced information skills. The concept of basic searching, aiming for more than basics in search, and conceptualising flexible, advanced and up to date searching is examined and contextualised with reference to theory and to the beginnings of an example illustrating a strategy that to a guide that facilitates the gaining of advanced information skills. Along the journey a monk, a strawberry and an information professional are introduced.