Information and Library Science

How we store, retrieve, and share knowledge

Led by the faculty in the Department of Information and Library Science, we analyze, evaluate, design, and manage information technologies to support effective organizational activities, work practice, and human usability.

We also investigate the preservation of, organization of, and access to records and documents in all physical and digital formats, and we consider the use and circulation of records and documents and the social and cultural institutions that house them.

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Subareas

Archives and records management

Investigate all types of libraries, archives, businesses, and government institutions and their specific ways of managing documents.

Digital humanities

Study digital and computational humanities, text markup, and the digital preservation of, organization of, and access to cultural texts.

Computer mediated communication and media studies

Study the role of computers in mediating human communication, conjoining information, media, and communication tools and technologies.

Documentation

Study the collection, organization, distribution, and use of recorded knowledge in any form, including issues such as trust, strategic intelligence, and knowledge organization.

Cultural informatics

Research specific cultural forms, such as music and natural science entities, and their institutional and knowledge organization infrastructures.

Information ethics

Examine ethical choice and policy making by professionals and users in collecting, organizing, and making available information. Research the role of intellectual freedom in expressing and accessing information.

Data science

Research information retrieval, knowledge portals, algorithms, and machine learning, from practical and critical perspectives.

Social informatics

Study the interrelationships between people and information technologies, including the technical mediation and shaping of personal, social, and organizational forms and agencies.

Luddy School of
Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

Information and Library Science

How we store, retrieve, and share knowledge

Subareas

Archives and records management

Digital humanities

Computer mediated communication and media studies

Documentation

Cultural informatics

Information ethics

Data science

Social informatics

Associated centers, groups, and labs

Information and Library Science

How we store, retrieve, and share knowledge

Subareas

Archives and records management

Digital humanities

Computer mediated communication and media studies

Documentation

Cultural informatics

Information ethics

Data science

Social informatics

Associated centers, groups, and labs

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