Stepping Up: Shaping the Future of the Field

Abstract

This is a Plenary Session 3 presentation (of 34 slides) on Friday, January 14 at the ALISE 2005 Conference. John King argues that the LIS "anxiety discourse" has parallels in other disciplines and is in reality a crisis of opportunity. Strategies for making the best of the opportunity are presented. Editor's note: Some of the slides (in the presentation) need a TIFF decompressor to see the pictures embedded in them. The URL on the final slide for the essay version of the talk does not work; instead, the essay is attached as a Microsoft Word file (18 pages) and can also be downloaded from the alternative location below.