What is in Store Between the Pages

Personally, I do not have any misconceptions about Library and Information Science. I have not even heard of the term before college! When I did, all I thought of is that it concerned the retrieval and organization of books in an academic library and other libraries. While that is true, it is just the tip of the iceberg.

Library and Information Science is larger than that, in that it transcends between the pages of the book and concerns any media involving information. Books, artifacts, CDs, computers, databases, systems, and much more! LIS teaches us preserve, organize, and analyze the information all around us. It tackles the behavior of information controlled by human activity, and it teaches students the proper skills needed to be a guardian of information. It teaches us to translate information so that it can be accessible to everyone of any field, as it is entirely interdisciplinary. It is a field where it helps medical practitioners get the records of previous conditions, make lawyers remember the policies needed on their cases, where workers analyze the next project for their company, and teaches the student to get the book that they want out of a library.

I do want to study about information technology in LIS to see how far we have evolved in the field in terms of technological advancement. From books and paper, information is now on the cloud and in the internet. Is it more reliable? Would it drastically change in the next few decades? The future is bright and I want to be a part of that future.