Information as liberal art: statement for
Information as a Liberal Art: Statement for LIS 560 I wish I had found my calling to librarianship a decade ago while attending a small liberal arts college. This unfortunately was not the case, yet I can begin to see in retrospect how well that education prepared me for the nature of what we are currently engaged in. We are pursuing mastery of an emerging, ambiguous, vast field. It is largely those "theoretical" skills that that allow us to do what we are trying to do. This program asks us to transcend what we simply know because the universe of information is both vast and rapidly changing due to global social and technological forces. We can no longer just “know” everything we need to do our jobs as information professionals, but will need the skills to just figure it out when the time comes. As students we are asked to learn both new facts and think critically about the ambiguous nature of the information world we occupy. Shapiro gives us some background on