During the ASIS&T Board of Directors retreat this past July in Montreal, the ASIS&T McGill Student Chapter and France Bouthillier, director of McGill’s School of Information Studies, invited six board members to participate in a symposium on current and future trends in information science research. The board members generously agreed to provide a panel discussion to an overflowing room of 50 attendees, reviewing definitions of what the field is really about warnings about current research practices in the field anticipated future directions in LIS research