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The MLIS/MLS curriculum can vary widely. [10] Typically, both theoretical and practical components are included. A comprehensive measurement of the library student's mastery of the field occurs during the last semester of the program and consists of a research project, often tied to a practicum or internship, or a master's thesis. Some schools have stringent course requirements while others ...
In 1911, it was a library school founded by Harriet Howe, Josephine Meissner, William E. Henry and Charles W. Smith, established in response to a growing need in the Western United States for highly trained, well-prepared librarians. [3] Prior to 1911, librarians in the Pacific Northwest were trained through a six-week summer course offered at the University of Washington.
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. The school is a charter member of the iSchool ...
The College of Information Studies ( Maryland's iSchool) is a school within the University of Maryland, College Park in Maryland, United States. The College offers graduate study leading to the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS), the Master of Information Management (MIM), the Master of Science in Human Computer Interaction (HCIM), and the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in ...
The University of Western Ontario offers the only MLIS degree in Canada which can be completed in 12 months. [10] Students are required to complete a total of 15 courses, which can be completed in one academic year (3 terms, 12 months) if students take the full course load of five courses per term and do not participate in the co-op program. [14] Students may also choose to take a reduced ...
A library school is an institution of higher learning specializing in the professional training of librarians. The first library school in the United States was established by Melvil Dewey, creator of the Dewey decimal system, in 1887 at Columbia University. [3] Since then many library schools have been founded in the United States and Canada, [4] with Canada's first formal librarianship ...
The school was founded in 1948 as a part of the UT Graduate School as the Graduate School of Library Science, offering a Master of Library Science (MLS) degree as well as certification for school librarianship, an offering which has been continually provided to this day. In 1967 the school initiated a Certificate of Advanced Study followed in 1969-70 by a doctoral program, leading to the ...
In 2013 U.S. News & World Report ranked the school 15th nationally among Library and Information Science schools. [2] SOIS ranks 4th internationally and 2nd in the US/Canada in department contributions to library and information science (LIS) literature (2007 - 2012) as reported in a recent study in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology by Walters & Wilder. [3]