Library Science

Hi everyone,

Building off Matthew's post from earlier, I thought it would be beneficial to look up what a library science degree actually entails. I know Simmons College here in Boston has an excellent program, which they call the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. You can follow the link here: http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/about/index.php. Its extremely useful to see what this entails and how this could shape our programs going ahead. I recommend reading their mission statement, student goals, and the Dean's message, which actually focuses on how legal statutes are effecting library information and personal rights.

I was especially interested in how they broach the topic of technology and changing information, since their program must have to evolve on a pretty rapid basis to prepare their students. As you can imagine, there are a lot of buzzwords included, such as "accessibility," and "innovation," but they also talk distinctly about the interrelation of information and knowledge, which are words I use pretty interchangeably (at least in this case). They also discuss information management, which I thought was interesting and makes sense with all the varied sources and ways of gathering information out there. Anyway, I plan on doing more research, but I definitely think perusing this could help us nail down preliminary programs and ideas of what we want to focus on in our library design.