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The Palmer School of Library and Information Science is part of Long Island University in New York, United States and offers a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science. According to its Graduate Bulletin, the school was founded as the Carlton and Winthrop Palmer Library School, on the then C.W. Post College of Long Island ...
LIU Post is located on 307 acres (1.24 km 2) of rolling hills in Brookville, New York, on Long Island's North Shore.The area is sometimes datelined as Greenvale, because there is no "Brookville" post office, and the school is in the zip code that is served by the Greenvale post office, which is to the west.
Long Island University (LIU) is a private university in Brooklyn and Brookville, New York, United States. The university enrolls over 16,000 students and offers over 500 academic programs at its main campuses, LIU Brooklyn and LIU Post on Long Island , in addition to non-residential locations and online.
For a while it was named the C.W. Post Center and then the C.W. Post Campus. What was C.W. Post College has now become mainly a commuter campus called LIU/Post, and it has about 8,500 full- and part-time students and over 100,000 alumni. [14] The World War II Liberty Ship, SS C. W. Post, was named in his honor.
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.
Marjorie Merriweather Post (March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973) was an American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist. She was the daughter of C. W. Post and the owner of General Foods Corporation. For much of Post's life, she was known as the wealthiest woman in the United States. [1] [2]
Robert Brier (/ ˈ b r aɪ. ər /; born December 13, 1943) is an American Egyptologist specializing in paleopathology.A senior research fellow at Long Island University/LIU Post, he has researched and published on mummies and the mummification process and has appeared in many Discovery Civilization, TLC Network, and National Geographic documentaries, primarily on ancient Egypt.
The LIU Post Pioneers passed into history after the 2018–19 school year when LIU merged the Pioneers with the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds, the Division I program of the school's Brooklyn campus. The current LIU program now competes as the LIU Sharks, with the new nickname having been selected by polling of alumni and students of the two campuses. [2]