Mission and Goals
The mission of the Library and Information Science Program is to prepare students to assume professional roles in varied and evolving library and information environments.GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:
1. Assume a leadership role in traditional and interdisciplinary research and scholarship that address information and library issues.
- Faculty will conduct research and disseminate the results regionally, nationally, and internationally.
- Faculty will encourage students to conduct research.
- Faculty will seek opportunities to share with and engage students in research.
- Students will utilize relevant research studies in their course work.
- Students will gain an awareness of current research in the field, research methods, and the use of research findings.
2. Educate within and for a rapidly changing technological world.
- Students will understand how technology is reshaping and affecting libraries and the profession.
- Students will identify, evaluate and apply current and emerging technologies of relevance to information organizations and services.
- Students will understand the responsible use of technology.
- The Program will provide support for incorporating instructional and information technology throughout the curriculum.
3. Prepare students to understand the interactions between social factors and information environments.
- Students will understand the historical, social, cultural, educational, political, and economic dimensions of information and information agencies.
- Students will articulate the importance of intellectual freedom in providing information access.
- Students will recognize intellectual property, security, and privacy issues.
- Students will recognize the role of information technologies and organizations in globalization.
4. Teach and foster professional attitudes and a service philosophy.
- Students will articulate a personal and professional code of ethics.
- Students will recognize the necessity for involvement in professional organizations.
- Students will demonstrate a committed professional attitude, including a concern for ethical issues, individual professional development, and continuing education.
- Students will recognize the value of teaching and service in the advancement of the profession.
- Faculty will encourage involvement in the community and community organizations.
5. Engage the diverse community of which we are a part.
- The Program will seek diversity among the faculty.
- The Program will seek diversity among the student body.
- The Program will facilitate student experience in multicultural and multiethnic information environments.
- The Program will support underrepresented groups.
- The faculty will integrate urban issues across the program.