id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt istl-1927 Leaving Science for LIS .html text/html 4110 258 51 Introduction At the Special Libraries Association 2001 national conference, a panel discussion on the topic of why scientists leave science and go into library and information science (LIS) was popular and generated a lot of discussion. Some library managers, in fact, stated that they would prefer to hire a geologist and train that person in library and information science than vice versa (Hallmark 1998). cache/istl-1927.html txt/istl-1927.txt