Curious Minds: The Power of Connection , Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, The MIT Press, 2022. 293p. Softcover, $22.95. 9780262547147

Ginny Barnes

doi:10.5860/crl.86.2.364

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Ginny Barnes, First Year Student Success Librarian, California State University, Fresno

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Curious Minds: The Power of Connection, Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, The MIT Press, 2022. 293p. Softcover, $22.95. 9780262547147

Ginny Barnes

Abstract

It was upon reading the 1999 article, “The Invisible Substrate of Information Science” by renowned information science scholar, Dr. Marcia Bates, that something clicked in my understanding of the library field as a graduate student in my MSIS program. Bates described Information Science (as well as the disciplines of Education and Journalism) as a meta-discipline (1044). Compared to conventional disciplines, the meta-discipline cuts across the spectrum of various subjects, interested more in the processes than the content of each. Suddenly, I realized the reason all my peers and professors came from such varied academic and professional backgrounds. The common link was an interest in so many different fields.