Practical Engagement Roles of the New Information Professional Curriculum New Ways to Think about Content Education for Practice Technology Infrastructure ALISE home	Lines are blurring between forms of information because of digital capabilities to handle video, audio, images and text seamlessly. These presentations suggest some content areas that are opening to information professionals. Richard Cox, University of Pittsburgh "Reinventing the Information Professions and the Argument for Specialization in LIS Education: Case Studies in Information Technology and Archives"   Thom Gillespie, Indiana University "Core Knowledge for the New Information Professional: Computer Games"   Michael Goodchild, Professor of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara; Director, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, State University of New York "Geographic Data and the New Information Profession"   Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, Catholic University of America "Search Tactics of Web Users in Searching for Texts, Graphics, Known Items and Subjects: A Search Simulation Study"   Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland and Virginia Walter, University of California at Los Angeles "When Domains Converge: The Emerging Information Professional"
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