Introduction
Momentous events and advances occurring today have served as the impetus for redefining the University of Michigan's School of Information and Library Studies. We are in the midst of a revolution so profound that it will affect the lives of people around the world -- how they go about their daily business and interact with others in their workplaces, homes, schools, and communities. The revolution is forcing us to restructure a profession that is in serious jeopardy of becoming obsolete, irrelevant, or marginal to the needs of an educated society.
We have subsequently chosen a broader goal -- to create a "new school" to educate professionals who can create and manage "knowledge-work environments" including but not limited to what we now think of as libraries. Endurance and vitality for the school of the future requires expansion in size, breadth, synthetic activity, and time horizons for research.
