Most recently, LIS schools were accused by leaders of
the profession of failing to educate students appropriately for the workplace and
of engaging in esoteric and irrelevant research that was out of touch with real
world needs.
While, A
community of information schools known as the "iSchool Caucus" has been
founded that has no affiliation with a professional association in LIS yet it
contains significant numbers of the leading LIS programs in North America.
LIS:two camps: the library and the information sides.
we might all
agree generally that issues of information retrieval, information quality and
authenticity, policy for access and preservation, the health and security
applications of data mining, raise at least some big questions for information
research to study.
The points made about IR can be made more or less equivalently, I'd argue, for
many other of the current hot topics in information research. We are at the
party, so to speak, but we are rarely the center of attention.
What are the big questions?
It is
important to remember that the value of LIS make it a potentially strong contributor to the debate and analysis of such issues.
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