Future LIS Education and Evolving Global Competency Requirements for the Digital Information Environment: An Epistemological Overview

Abstract

In the context of an evolving digitally-oriented library and/or information science (LIS) d iscipline and framed by Andrew Abbott’s Chaos of Disciplines theory, this article p resents an epistemological overview of evolving competency requirements for a global digital information environment and the implications of this for future LIS education...