News tagged: LIS Education

The Master of Library and Information Studies degree at SLAIS, The iSchool at UBC, has been granted a three-year extension of its accreditation status (2014-2017) by the American Library Association’s Committee on Accreditation (ALA-COA). This is also known as conditional accreditation status. Although this is not a decision granting the longer seven-year accreditation cycle, it affirms full accreditation for the degree and all students who receive an MLIS degree from UBC during those three years and up to two years after.

Lynne Bowker appointed as Chair of the School of Information Studies

Forty-nine students will begin their MLIS program today in the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) at the University of Alberta without ever setting foot on campus.

Colleagues, it is my great honor to provide here a copy of correspondence received yesterday relating to the recent review of the University of Alberta, School of Library and Information …

Dr. Anna Altmann, former Director of SLIS from February 2003 to December 2007, will serve as Interim Director for the 2013-14 year.

The anticipated start date for this program will be Fall 2013.

The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, The iSchool at The University of British Columbia is pleased to announce Dr. Ann Curry has been named a UBC Professor Emerita.

Dean Peggy Cunningham of Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Management is very pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Louise Spiteri to a five-year term as Director of the School of …

Changes in leadership at uAlberta SLIS and uAlberta Libraries

Effective June 30, 2008, the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information Studies will be known as the Faculty of Information.