Table of Contents:
  • Wanted : information professionals
  • Information wants to be disorganized
  • Doctor, lawyer, scientist, chief : every profession depends on information
  • Horseshoes to biofuels : why technology development gets easier all the time
  • Where's my job? How outsourcing and offshoring change industries
  • The student perspective on the information field
  • Barriers and challenges : the student perspective
  • The workplace perspective on the information field
  • Barriers and challenges : the workplace perspective
  • Stereotypes, culture, and the information professions
  • Cyberinfrastructure : a long word for the future of information technology
  • The original information professionals
  • To iSchool or not to iSchool
  • Where have all the students gone? Diversity and recruitment challenges in the information professions
  • What's next.