The School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) is a top-ranked program for library, archival, information, and book arts education. SLIS develops creative, critical thinkers and leaders who understand the impact of information in all of its formats in our culturally pluralistic society.
Faculty
Director
- Jamie Campbell Naidoo, Ph.D.
Professors
- Anna Embree, M.F.C.S.
- Bharat Mehra, Ph.D.
- Jamie Campbell Naidoo, Ph.D.
Associate professors
- Laurie Bonnici, Ph.D.
- Steven MacCall, Ph.D.
- Miriam Sweeney, Ph.D.
- Jeff Weddle, Ph.D.
- Steven Yates, Ph.D.
Assistant professors
- Sarah Bryant, M.F.A.
- John Burgess, Ph.D.
- Hengyi Fu, Ph.D.
- Dimitrios Latsis, Ph.D.
- Robert Riter, Ph.D.
Instructor
- Kyle Holland, M.F.A.
Internship Coordinator
- Sybil Bullock, Ed.S.
Courses
This course is devoted to the fundamentals of letterpress. Students will develop fine craft skills in a studio environment. Through hands on assignments, students will be introduced to hand setting type, press operation, and image making techniques. They will learn fundamental terminology, gain an understanding of the interaction of type, ink, and paper, and develop familiarity with the equipment. The emphasis is on fine printing and relief image making.
Students in this course will build on their skills on the press through the production of two assignments, culminating in the design and production of a book project. This course is focused on typographic design, the intersection of text and image, and press work. Readings and discussions in this course will focus on typography and the hierarchy of information in the book format.
This introductory course examines information science through conceptual foundations and historical underpinnings of the field as they relate to the nature and roles of information and information institutions. Students will learn fundamental approaches to understand the relationships between Information and individuals, organizations, and society.
This required course introduces students to values and ethics and power structures that impact information and information services to diverse communities. It serves as a foundation for broadly thinking about information, communities, power, and social responsibility of LIS professionals.