Why not explore the possible implications of the message?
My own view is that there is a world-wide
(Anglo-American) crisis in L&IS which has tended to be
perceived by participants in local terms. Departments
either seem to be retreating, or inertly remaining in, a
niche (which would partly correspond to the panel) or
being absorbed into other departments (management, for
instance).
Could this be used positively as an argument for a wider
information studies panel of which information science
would form one component?
(Own publication and citation record falls between that
of the panel members and Charles Oppenheim).
Julian Warner
School of Management
The Queen's Unviersity of Belfast
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