TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose Many of today’s information and technology systems and environments facilitate inquiry, learning, consciousness-raising and knowledge-building. Such platforms include e-learning systems which have learning, education and/or training as explicit goals or objectives. They also include search engines, social media platforms, video-sharing platforms, and knowledge sharing environments deployed for work, leisure, inquiry, and personal and professional productivity. The new journal, Information and Learning Sciences, aims to advance our understanding of human inquiry, learning and knowledge-building across such information, e-learning, and socio-technical system contexts.Design/methodology/approach This article introduces the journal at its launch under new editorship in January, 2019. The article, authored by the journal co-editors and all associate editors, explores the lineage of scholarly undertakings that have contributed to the journal's new scope and mission, which includes past and ongoing scholarship in the following arenas: Digital Youth, Constructionism, Mutually Constitutive Ties in Information and Learning Sciences, and Searching-as-Learning.Findings The article offers examples of ways in which the two fields stand to enrich each other towards a greater holistic advancement of scholarship. The article also summarizes the inaugural special issue contents from the following contributors:Caroline Haythornthwaite; Krista Glazewski and Cindy Hmelo-Silver; Stephanie Teasley; Gary Marchionini; Caroline R. Pitt; Adam Bell, Rose Strickman and Katie Davis; Denise Agosto; Nicole Cooke; and Victor Lee.Originality/value The article, this special issue, and the journal in full, are among the first formal and ongoing publication outlets to deliberately draw together and facilitate cross-disciplinary scholarship at this integral nexus. We enthusiastically and warmly invite continued engagement along these lines in the journal’s pages, and also welcome related, and wholly contrary points of view, and points of departure that may build upon or debate some of the themes we raise in the introduction and special issue contents.
VL  - 120
IS  - 1/2
SN  - 2398-5348
DO  - 10.1108/ILS-01-2019-138
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-01-2019-138
AU  - Reynolds Rebecca
AU  - Chu Sam
AU  - Ahn June
AU  - Buckingham Shum Simon
AU  - Hansen Preben
AU  - Haythornthwaite Caroline
AU  - Huang Hong
AU  - Meyers Eric M.
AU  - Rieh Soo Young
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Inaugural issue perspectives on Information and Learning Sciences as an integral scholarly nexus
T2  - Information and Learning Sciences
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 2
EP  - 18
Y2  - 2024/09/19
ER  -