Information Nation: Education and Careers in the Emerging Information Professions

Information and IT are central to virtually every industry in which the United States plays a leadership role-financial services, entertainment engineering, aerospace, medicine, law, agriculture, and dozens of other fields-yet colleges have failed to attract, teach, and produce a new generation of information professionals to meet the growing need.

In Information Nation, three dedicated educators ask, "Why?" They present three years of research on students and workers in the information prof...