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Message from the Director

Managing Information ... Discovering Knowledge

The Palmer School of Library and Information Science is dedicated to providing leadership in the information professions through education, research and service. Our profession is as varied and as exciting as the professionals who enter it.

Today information and its management technologies touch almost every aspect of our society. Our corporations, academic institutions, governments, as well as our professional and personal lives are either enriched or complicated by the information systems we create and use.

The Palmer School of Library and Information Science is responding to that dramatic challenge. Our diverse master’s degree specializations, advanced certificates and Ph.D. program focus on increasing access to information in order to solve problems, create better products and services and enrich lives.

At the nationally renowned Palmer School of Library and Information Science, every course of study places a strong emphasis on the needs of the customer. Our students learn to match those needs to appropriate technologies and information sources to create superior customer experiences. That is just as true whether we are designing a small business Web site, telling stories to new learners, teaching information literacy to high school students or creating the technology platforms that unite researchers around the world.

Through fostering an understanding of the complex integration and relationship among information, technology and people, we prepare our students for careers in a field that is both vibrant and rich in opportunity – as well as one that traverses every industry and all sectors of our society. Our graduates enter the workforce equipped with the ability to create, design and manage information systems and serve their customers in all sectors of our society.

The future is for those who make sense of the information and discover the knowledge from within. We look forward to our graduates playing leadership roles in this new frontier; marrying information, technology and people to build better information products, improve information-intensive organizations and enrich the lives of those around them.

Cordially,

Jody Howard, Interim Director
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
jody.howard@liu.edu