The Waxing and Waning of a Field: Reflections on Information Studies Education
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| contents | The Waxing and Waning of a Field: Reflections on Information Studies Education Cronin, Blaise Information Science Library Science Archives Documentation Information Science Education Intellectual Disciplines Prediction Expertise Information Scientists Adjustment (to Environment) Interdisciplinary Approach In this short paper, avowedly personal, partial and pointillist in nature, I (i) sketch the early days of (mainly Anglo-American) information studies and the field's gradual institutionalization, (ii) describe its maturation, as both an academic discipline and a domain of professional practice, and (iii) speculate on its future in the light of oft expressed predictions of its imminent demise as an autonomous enterprise within the academy. I invoke import-export data to demonstrate the newfound outer-directedness of the field and the growing attractiveness of its research to cognate disciplines. However, I also argue that the permeability of contemporary information studies' boundaries may in fact be the cause of its eventual undoing: in short, epistemic promiscuity comes at a price. |
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| spellingShingle | The Waxing and Waning of a Field: Reflections on Information Studies Education Cronin, Blaise Information Science Library Science Archives Documentation Information Science Education Intellectual Disciplines Prediction Expertise Information Scientists Adjustment (to Environment) Interdisciplinary Approach The Waxing and Waning of a Field: Reflections on Information Studies Education Cronin, Blaise Information Science Library Science Archives Documentation Information Science Education Intellectual Disciplines Prediction Expertise Information Scientists Adjustment (to Environment) Interdisciplinary Approach In this short paper, avowedly personal, partial and pointillist in nature, I (i) sketch the early days of (mainly Anglo-American) information studies and the field's gradual institutionalization, (ii) describe its maturation, as both an academic discipline and a domain of professional practice, and (iii) speculate on its future in the light of oft expressed predictions of its imminent demise as an autonomous enterprise within the academy. I invoke import-export data to demonstrate the newfound outer-directedness of the field and the growing attractiveness of its research to cognate disciplines. However, I also argue that the permeability of contemporary information studies' boundaries may in fact be the cause of its eventual undoing: in short, epistemic promiscuity comes at a price. |
| title | The Waxing and Waning of a Field: Reflections on Information Studies Education |
| topic | Information Science Library Science Archives Documentation Information Science Education Intellectual Disciplines Prediction Expertise Information Scientists Adjustment (to Environment) Interdisciplinary Approach |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ984787 |