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The School of Information Sciences, also The iSchool at Illinois, is an undergraduate and graduate school at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign.Its Master of Science in Library and Information Science is currently accredited in full good standing by the American Library Association.
San Jose State University: School of Information; University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA): Department of Information Studies (UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies) University of Southern California (USC) [2]
The first iSchools Caucus was formed in 1988 by Syracuse, [1] Pittsburgh, and Drexel and was called the Gang of Three (sometimes gang of four with Rutgers). [2] [3] Syracuse renamed the School of Library Science as the School of Information Studies in 1974, and is considered as the first “iSchool” in history.
The LEEP program provides students who are not able to relocate to the Urbana-Champaign area a means to attend the university's ALA-accredited Master of Library and Information Science, Master of Information Science or Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) program. The program, and the iSchool overall, is ranked #1 by U.S. News & World Report.
Information science (often termed as library and information science) is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources; and the political economy of information.
Smith joined the faculty of the School of Information Sciences, the iSchool at the University of Illinois, in 1977. Positions held as assistant professor (1977-1982), associate professor (1983-1994), professor (1994-2019), Distinguished Teacher/Scholar, August 1999- present and professor emerita (2019-present).
Jointly with the UIUC School of Information Sciences (iSchool at Illinois), the library offers a Certificate in Special Collections Librarianship with courses on a wide range of topics, including special collections librarianship, exhibition preparation, bookbinding, medieval manuscripts, the history of paper, bibliographic description, and ...
Next, in 2015, [2] she moved to the Illinois Institute of Technology as professor of computer science and Ron Hochsprung Endowed Chair, [4] before serving as dean of the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from August 2019 until January 2025.