The University of Arizona has launched its School of Information headed by Bryan Heidorn.
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:
The iSchool combines the School of Information Resources and Library Science, or SIRLS, located in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the School of Information: Science, Technology, and Arts, or SISTA, located in the College of Science.
The iSchool will include additional affiliate faculty from the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the College of Science, as well as faculty from College of Fine Arts and the College of Humanities who have research interests in digital arts and humanities. . . .
The Master of Arts in library and information science is accredited by the American Library Association and prepares students for careers in libraries, museums and archives, as well as in government and business information centers. . . .
Students in the doctoral program in information learn to develop and apply computational methods to challenges that overlap multiple academic disciplines—from discovering signaling pathways in cells, to understanding musical improvisation, to training digital video cameras to understand what they see—and will be prepared for careers in academia, government and industry.
A Master of Science in information is undergoing university approvals and is expected to be available for classes beginning in the fall.
The iSchool also will offer a variety of certificates. Like most of the degrees, they will be offered face-to-face and online. They are:
- The DigIn (Digital Information Management) graduate certificate, which trains professionals to create and manage large, complex digital collections.
- The certificate in archival studies, which teaches students how archival practices affect the composition and meaning of cultural artifacts and the historical record.
- The legal information and scholarly communication certificate, which prepares students to serve in various types of libraries, archives, government agencies and businesses where legal information is critical for success. For jobs where a Juris Doctorate is required, the school provides a law librarianship graduate certificate.
- The certificate in medical and community health information, which will involve skills in the acquisition and dissemination of quality health information as well as training on providing culturally competent health information services.
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