Survey results indicate that new leaders spend more time in the informational role and in the change-leader role than established leaders. New leaders have less responsibility for computer operations, communication networks and technical infrastructure than established leaders. With Information Management being a somewhat diverse area, incorporating a number of areas and skills, one of the potential problems is considering how the subject can be taught to honors degree students in a flexible and meaningful way, while keeping abreast of new developments and thinking from academia and industry. The authors helped develop and deliver one possible approach to teaching Information Management at honors degree level that will be discussed in this paper, namely Information Challenges. The papers in this Special Issue of Informing Science highlight research areas in the interdisciplinary field of Information Science.
Information Scientists are concerned with how people's information problems can be resolved.
As humans struggle to seek and use information within the plethora of information sources increasingly available via the Web, Information Science research is taking center stage. Each paper in this special issue is written by an expert in their area of Information Science research. This paper provides a history and overview of the field of human information behavior, including recent advances in the field and multidisciplinary perspectives. The paper elucidates current models of interactive information retrieval, namely, the episodic model, the stratified model, the interactive feedback and search process model, and the global model of polyrepresentation. Future directions for research in the field are discussed.