Syracuse University
School of Information Studies | 343 Hinds Hall | Syracuse, NY 13244-4100
Phone: 315-443-2911 | Fax: 315-443-6886
Email: ischool@syr.edu | URL: http://ischool.syr.edu
Syracuse University boasts a “high touch” and “high tech” orientation that makes its educational programs, research, and development initiatives especially attractive to students in today’s information marketplace. Its Master of Science in Library and Information Science program was ranked No. 3 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
Left, Hinds Hall, home of the MSLIS program.
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Jose Tavarez, Graduate Academic Counselor/Recorder jltavare@syr.edu 114L Hinds Hall 315-443-5601 Kathleen Benjamin, Program Coordinator |
200 Archbold North Syracuse, NY 13244-1140 315-443-1513 Email: finmail@syr.edu |
Total students: 685 Total part-time: 308 Total female: 398 Total under-represented minorities: 180 Total international: 176 |
| Program Director Scott Nicholson on the MSLIS degree at Syracuse: |
| Below, the iSchool at Syracuse - An Introduction: |
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Below, Professor Dave Dischiave answers frequently asked questions about the Information Management (IM) program at Syracuse University's iSchool: |
Master of Science in Library and Information Science
Ranked No. 3 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Click here.
MSLIS with Specialization in School Media
Ranked No. 4 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Click here.
Masters in Information Management
http://ischool.syr.edu/academics/graduate/msirm/index.aspx
Also offered in Washington, DC, for those working for or with the federal government:
http://ischool.syr.edu/academics/graduate/irm/index.aspx
Masters in Telecommunications and Network Management
http://ischool.syr.edu/academics/graduate/mstnm/index.aspx
Masters in Information Management Executive Program
http://ischool.syr.edu/academics/graduate/ExecIM/index.aspx
Certificate of Advanced Study in School Media
http://ischool.syr.edu/academics/graduate/sch/index.aspx
Certificate of Advanced Study in Information Security Management
http://ischool.syr.edu/academics/graduate/ism/index.aspx
Certificate of Advanced Study in Information Systems and Telecommunications Management
http://ischool.syr.edu/academics/graduate/istm/index.aspx
Certificate of Advanced Study in Digital Libraries
http://ischool.syr.edu/academics/graduate/mls/digitallibraries/index.asp...
PhD in Information Science and Technology
http://ischool.syr.edu/academics/doctoralprograms/index.aspx
Doctorate of Professional Studies in Information Management
http://ischool.syr.edu/academics/doctoralprograms/index.aspx
Executive Education Programs
http://ischool.syr.edu/academics/execed/index.aspx
The master’s degree and graduate certificate programs are available via distance learning, combining online instruction with residencies on campus. Master’s degree students in the distance program begin their first year in July with a required on-campus residency. Students can return to campus in the summer to take courses during the school’s Regnier Summer Institute on Leadership and Change and can also take advantage of the WISE consortium, which allows them to take selected distance courses through other high-quality LIS programs.
42 full-time faculty, including 15 women, and 10 from under-represented minorities: http://ischool.syr.edu/facstaff/
The faculty includes internationally known researchers and practitioners, with strengths in digital libraries, school library media centers, and library management and leadership. Faculty members teach across disciplines and do not group themselves into traditional departments or academic units. This culture supports collaboration and innovative research.
Director of the iSchool's nationally ranked school media program.
Read about the successful careers of iSchool alumni in fields ranging from Business to Libraries to Telecommunications. http://ischool.syr.edu/imagine/
Profiles can also be found at http://ischool.syr.edu/alumni/alumni_profiles.aspx.
Recent graduates have taken such diverse positions as:
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Employment opportunities for school library media specialists are also extensive, in K-12 schools and other areas in the library profession, including public libraries where there is a critical need for for both children's and young adult services librarians.
Ensuring No Child Is Left Behind
Educators across the country face the challenge of teaching to federal and state standards. So, researchers in the Center for Natural Language Processing Center for Natural Language Processing have developed the beta version of an application that will assign state standard equivalents for each national standard.
Exploring Online Learning
Professor Martha Garcia-Murillo likes teaching lessons through hands-on projects and group work. In her online information policy class, she created a game in the children's virtual world, where students were assigned roles and had to develop their position on a given piece of legislation such as the Spy Act. Then they argued and negotiated their position to pass the legislation.
Through this exercise, she discovered that the virtual world allowed students to learn in a variety of styles and engage with the assignment on their own terms. Students said they were more aggressive in their virtual defense of their position, and also liked the challenge of having to "learn on their feet" in the fast-paced virtual world.
Technology’s Effect on Educating Future Librarians
Professor R. David Lankes, a fellow of the American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy and director of the Information Institute of Syracuse, leads a collaborative research project on the evolving landscape of information technology and its implications for the education of the next generation of library and information science professionals. His primary focus is on further developing the concept of participatory librarianship first set out in the technology brief Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation.
Making Collections Available Online
Researchers at the Center for Natural Language Processing (CNLP) at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University are working to make more museum, newspaper, and other collections available online or through digital libraries. With $191,000 in support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services Building Digital Collections program, CNLP researchers and their partners at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., are integrating three digital library tools and services to create a new hybrid, computer-assisted cataloging system, the Metadata Assignment and Search Tool (MAST). MAST will enable libraries and museums to describe and disseminate their digital materials—whether they are photos, drawings, historical records, or school lesson plans—efficiently.
Impact of Certified Librarians on Students’ Education
Preliminary findings of research conducted by iSchool Professor Ruth Small and graduate students in the Center for Digital Literacy (CDL) show a statistically significant increase in the English Language Arts test scores—almost a 10 point difference—among fourth-grade students whose schools had certified librarians over students in schools without certified librarians. Small, who directs the school library media program at the iSchool and was recently appointed to the Governor’s New York State Council for Universal Broadband’s Digital Literacy Committee, initiated a study across New York State with funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Small hopes to better understand the impact these trained library media specialists have on motivating students to learn, influencing the adoption and use of technology, and servicing students with disabilities and special needs.
S.O.S. for Information Literacy Project
The Center for Digital Literacy (CDL) is a collaborative enterprise of Information Studies, the Newhouse School, and the School of Education. In CDL researchers representing many disciplines explore the impact of information, technology, and media literacy on children and adults. They also develop tools to foster literacy in a variety of contexts. In the S.O.S. for Information Literacy Project, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Studies and directed by Professor Ruth Small, director of CDL, researchers are designing a Web-based system that will provide school library media specialists and classroom teachers with tools to teach information literacy skills to children in grades K through 8.
The Information Components of Inventive Thinking
Ruth Small, professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and founding director of the Center for Digital Literacy (CDL), has been awarded an Enitiative grant for a two-year research study of inventive thinking in children. Inventive thinking forms the foundation of entrepreneurial endeavors. The CDL plans to explore the following questions: What are the information requirements (skills, resources, activities) of successful inventive thinking and entrepreneurship? In what ways are inventive thinking processes and information problem-solving processes related? What and how do information-seeking support services influence students’ inventive thinking processes and entrepreneurial activities? How can information services and resources be designed to more effectively motivate and support students’ inventive thinking processes and entrepreneurial activities? Results of this innovative study are expected to add to our knowledge in this relatively untested area of research and be of practical value to future inventors/entrepreneurs, information professionals, and educators who may influence future inventors and entrepreneurs.
For details of additional research being conducted at the iSchool, visit http://ischool.syr.edu/research/researchcenters/index.aspx.
School Life
http://ischool.syr.edu/ilife/
Information on social networking and student organizations including videos.
Blogs, Wikis, and Listservs
Blogs: http://ischool.syr.edu/ilife/blogs.aspx
http://blogs.iis.syr.edu/mslis/
Wikis: http://ischool.syr.edu/ilife/wikis.aspx
http://istwikis.syr.edu/mslis/index.php/Main_Page
Listservs: http://ischool.syr.edu/ilife/current/advising/listservs.aspx
Social Networking: http://ischool.syr.edu/academics/graduate/mls/social_neworking.aspx
