GSLIS Mission, Program Goals and Program Objectives

GSLIS Mission Statement

GSLIS is committed to providing affordable programs and rigorous teaching to educate critically-minded, community-focused, and service-oriented professionals who will contribute to diverse information-intensive environments, the vitality of their local and global communities and the advancement of the LIS disciplines, research, and practice.

GSLIS Program Goals

a) Through a rigorous yet flexible curriculum, GSLIS will prepare graduates for employment and service in a diverse, global, and rapidly changing information society

b) Through service to local, professional and other stakeholder communities, GSLIS will foster ethical, socially-minded leadership in its students

c) Through excellence in research, GSLIS will create new knowledge and contribute to the solution of today’s information problems

Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)

A. Enable access to information and knowledge, including its creation, acquisition, organization and management, storage and retrieval

B. Articulate the role and importance of ethics, values, lifelong learning and advocacy underlying the practice of the information professions

C. Apply appropriate standards, policies, tools and practices in various specializations of information science, as articulated by representative professional organizations

D. Design and conduct research studies, critically assess research claims, and synthesize and disseminate findings

E. Advocate for social justice, particularly in our metropolitan community, by understanding the needs, designing programs with, and amplifying the strengths of our underserved groups

F. Identify, evaluate and implement current and emerging technologies to create, store, and present information in a way such that users can access it, process it, and experience it

G. Explain and apply principles of effective management and leadership in the library and related information institutions in a rapidly changing society

***Updated Fall 2021***