This paper aims to explore the emerging research fields in Library & Information Science in face of the impact of information technology. The tug of war between two paradigms from the LIS field, library as a social institution and information process as human communication, was described to show that LIS should not view 'information' as objective entity, but be concerned with its subjectivity in human communication system. Lack of substantial theories and ignorance of LIS within the university constitute the conceptually interdisciplinary but actually narrow scope of LIS studies. Farradane's (1979) fundamental concepts of information representations, their relations and their communication were used to map out some important areas of inquiry. Finally, three major research areas in LIS, knowledge representation, human information behavior and the social implications of new information technology, were suggested.