I was surprised to learn from the publisher that Infomation Nation is now available on the Kobo eBook reader. I had assumed that with the demise of the Borders bookstore chain that Kobo would go down with the ship. On further investigation, Kobo is an independent Canadian company, and although Borders owns an 11% share of Kobo, they are not a majority shareholder and Kobo will continue as an independent eReader firm. With the success of the Kindle and the Nook, however, it seems like a difficult business in which to compete.
If you have a Kobo reader and would like to preview Information Nation, look here:
http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Information-Nation-Education-Careers-Emerging/book-spzMKnrDLUyEqt9nkzDddg/page1.html
A new educational focus is emerging in some institutions of higher education. These schools are taking an interdisciplinary approach to educating tomorrow’s information professionals, by mixing together science, technology, social science, and design. These new programs are beginning to educate students in these new professions – not as programmers or coders or software developers, but as professional analysts, architects, and creators of our planet’s critical information infrastructure.
