MLIS Program Director Kay Cassell's Fall Welcome
Watch Kay Cassell's welcome to students, faculty, and staff for the Fall semester. Here program director Kay Cassell provides valuable information on the MLIS program including national rankings, job opportunities, and specializations, among other issues.
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The MLIS Program of the Department of Library and Information Science at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey’s School of Communication and Information (SC&I) is guided by:
OUR VISION: Information makes a profound difference in the lives of people and of society.
OUR MISSION: Our program’s mission is to enable our graduates to make significant contributions to the social development and the quality of life of individuals by strengthening the links among people, libraries and information, and technology in the context of promoting the values and freedoms of a democratic society.
Earn your Master of Library and Information Science (M.L.I.S.) degree and enter a world of professional education for service and management careers in libraries, information agencies, the information industry, and in business, industry, government, research - in short, any environment where information is a vital resource.
You can earn your degree in a traditional face-to-face classroom setting. You can earn your degree entirely online . Or you can earn your degree with a combination of both delivery options. The same faculty teach and develop the courses offered no matter how you choose to put your program together.
The M.L.I.S. program prepares you for a wide range of careers, including:
- Information Broker
- Information Retrieval Specialist/Reference Librarian
- Information Subject Specialist and Archivist
- Knowledge Manager
- Manager of Library and Information Organizations
- Medical Informatics Specialist
- School Library Media Specialist
- Technical Services Librarian
- Web Librarian
- Youth and Children's Librarian
OUR GOALS:
We aspire to:
1. Be the finest MLIS program among our peer institutions in North America,
2. Recruit excellent students and faculty who are culturally and intellectually diverse,
3. Maintain and continually improve a rigorous and challenging intellectual program leading to a masters degree in Library and Information Science, which is recognized as a pre-eminent LIS masters program in North America,
4. Provide a flexible and integrated array of course offerings in library and information science that comprise a coherent program of professional education, and produces graduates who work in any of the specific environments where librarianship or information service is central,
5. Include courses that reflect an interdisciplinary and international research program that focuses on the interrelationships of people, information, and technology,
6. Offer a curriculum that balances theory and practice and is based on the best of library and information science traditions, while looking to the future.
Ready to get started right now?
You have all the information you need on this web site! Please see our Program Details menu on this page for further information on admissions, courses, careers, and more.
The Rutgers program in Library and Information Science is accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of the American Library Association, under the Standards for Accreditation, 2008. Its most recent reaccreditation was awarded in 2004.To contact us:
For general inquiries and for further information about the on campus option:
732.932.7500 x8955
For general inquiries and for further information about the online option:
732.932.7500 x8955
If you would like to explore both options, please send one email and copy both email addresses.
No matter which option you would prefer, you can reach us by mail at:
Department of Library and Information Science, SC&I
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071