Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction
Chapter 1: Wanted: Information Professionals
Part 1: Information Is Changing the World
Chapter 2: Infomation Wants to Be … Disorganized Chapter 3:
Doctor, Lawyer, Scientist, Chief: Every Profession Depends on
Information Chapter 4: Horseshoes to Biofuels: Why Technology
Development Gets Easier All the Time Chapter 5: Where’s My
Job? How Outsourcing and Offshoring Change Industries
Part 2: What Information Professionals Do in School and at Work
Chapter 6: The Student Perspective on the Information Field Chapter 7:
Barriers and Challenges: The Student Perspective Chapter 8: The
Workplace Perspective on the Information Field Chapter 9: Barriers and
Challenges: The Workplace Perspective Chapter 10: Stereotypes, Culture,
and the Information Professions
Part 3: What’s Next?
Chapter 11: Cyberinfrastructure: A Long Word for the Future of
Information Technology Chapter 12: The Original Information
Professionals Chapter 13: To iSchool or Not to iSchool Chapter 14:
Where Have All the Students Gone? Diversity and Recruitment Challenges
in the Information Professions Chapter 15: What’s Next?
Appendix A: List of Exercises and Associated Discussion Points Appendix
B: Suggestions for Additional Reading Appendix C: Partial List of
Universities With Degree Programs in the Information Field Appendix D:
Websites of Interest for Jobseekers in the Information Professions
About the Authors Index
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