This third edition of Information Services Today: An Introduction demonstrates the ever-changing landscape of information services today and the need to re-evaluate curriculum, competency training, professional development, and lifelong learning in order to stay abreast of current trends and issues, and more significantly, remain competent to address the changing user needs of information communities. Specifically, the Information Services Today: An Introduction:
∙ provides a thorough introduction, history, and overall state of the field,
∙ explores different types of information communities, the varying information needs within those communities, and the role of equity of access, diversity, inclusion, and social justice in those communities,
∙ addresses why information organizations and information and technological literacy are more important today than ever before,
∙ discusses how technology has influenced the ways that information professionals...