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The marriage between librarianship\/documentation and computer science was a natural development in the United States in the post\u2010War period (Farkas\u2010Conn, 1991; Hahn & Barlow, 2012<\/jats:ext-link>), while the development of information science in Europe has largely stayed close to the humanities and the social sciences, in particular, in relation to communication and media (Ibekwe\u2010SanJuan, et al., 2010). For many years, the interdisciplinary nature of information science has been applauded; until recently, we are warned that interdisciplinarinity may be harmful to the identity of the field. Buckland (2012<\/jats:ext-link>) states that the claim of being \u201cinterdisciplinary\u201d is to choose a position of weakness because \u201cin times of economic crisis political power tends to reside in well\u2010established disciplines.\u201d Cronin (2012<\/jats:ext-link>) comments that \u201cthe field's sense of identity, arguably fragile at the best of times, is likely to be further weakened\u201d for its \u201cepistemic promiscuity.\u201d<\/jats:p>This international panel aims to discuss the theoretical boundaries of information science in relation to disciplinarity and to the identity of information science with a special reference to the premises, promises and implications of diverging historical and contemporary traditions in different European countries and in the US. Is information science gaining strength by being more interdisciplinary or is \u201cthe basic problem for LIS seems at the moment to be a lack of sufficiently strong centripetal forces keeping the field together\u201d as Hj\u00f8rland (forthcoming) fears. Does IS risk disintegration or dilution if it is being pulled more by centrifugal forces towards neighbouring disciplines rather than by centripetal forces? Is the main problem of IS \u201cepistemological promiscuity\u201d? This panel will discuss how IS in their different geographical or cultural zones has grappled with these issues which are in essence issues of boundaries. In particular, we will discuss the following questions:\n\nHow information science is affiliated with other disciplines (e.g. natural sciences, social sciences, or interdisciplinary fields) in different regions, countries and institutions represented by the panelists?<\/jats:p><\/jats:list-item>\nHow is interdisciplinarity perceived in the panelists' institution\/country?<\/jats:p><\/jats:list-item>\nWhat are the main theories, if any, that inform research in information science and the formation of research areas in different regions, countries and institutions?<\/jats:p><\/jats:list-item>\nWhy and how the identity and disciplinarity of information science matter in the context of the work of information science researchers and practitioners?<\/jats:p><\/jats:list-item>\n<\/jats:list><\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1002\/meet.14505001009","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,5,8]],"date-time":"2014-05-08T20:35:28Z","timestamp":1399581328000},"page":"1-3","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Crossing the boundaries in information science: Perspectives on interdisciplinarity"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"50","author":[{"given":"Tatjana","family":"Aparac\u2010Jelus\u0306i\u0107","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Fidelia","family":"Ibekwe\u2010SanJuan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Isto","family":"Huvila","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Lai","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Virginia Ortiz\u2010Repiso","family":"Jimenez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Julian","family":"Warner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,5,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_5_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/asi.21656"},{"key":"e_1_2_5_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1108\/00012530910959826"},{"issue":"3","key":"e_1_2_5_4_1","article-title":"The waxing and waning of a field: Reflections on information studies education","volume":"17","author":"Cronin B.","year":"2012","journal-title":"Information Research"},{"key":"e_1_2_5_5_1","volume-title":"From documentation to information science: The beginnings and early development of the American Documentation Institute\u2010American Society for Information Science","author":"Farkas\u2010Conn I. 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