12 different PhDs on a faculty of 21

In the parlance of interdisciplinary advocates, universities are organized around disciplines; problems are not.

pressing intellectual problems by their nature will cross existing disciplinary boundaries

To be an iSchool is to place greater emphasis on broader human activities over these concerns with the specific agency or organizational form wherein the information practices occur.

concern that technology was just being treated as a tool for demonstrating academic relevance rather than as a genuine basis for disciplinary identity

More importantly, by placing emphasis on human activities mediated by information and technology, this articulation shifts the field's focus from agencies of collection such as libraries or archives, which more typically are invoked when describing subject coverage in schools of library and information science, to the contexts in which people, information and technology interact

the term information was taken to represent either a greater emphasis on people (in the case of computer science) or on technology (in the case of librarianship)

I argue that iSchools are distinctive from other LIS programs less for their subject emphasis or methodological approaches than for their orientation to the study of information beyond agencies, their commitment to multidisciplinary work, and a formal emphasis on research productivity.