The information school phenomenon

Interactions

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 15-19

  Olson, Gary M ^a   Grudin, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMMON UNDERSTANDING; COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATIONS; DESIGN STUDIES; FACULTY MEMBERS; HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION RESEARCHES; LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; LIBRARY SCIENCE; RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS;

COMPUTERS; CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LIBRARIES; NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION; TEACHING;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 62949182825     PISSN: 10725520     EISSN: 15583449     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1487632.1487636     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. Some universities apply the terms school and college to somewhat different organizational entities, but we follow the convention used by most, whereby they are essentially equivalent.
2. We call this a "proto-school" because while it was a department, not a school, it was not part of any other school, and reported to the vice chancellor.
3. The quotation is from T. Didomenico, "Three Decades as an Information Leader," Home Page 7, no. 1 (2004). 〈http:// ischool.syr.edu/news-room/newsletters/ISTSummer2004.pdf〉. Interpreting the word Information" in a title is complicated by the use of "information systems" as a synonym for computer hardware and software systems in the management field. We consider "information systems" to be a tightly defining term, not an expansive term, so do not include it as a variant of information. In contrast, "Informatics" as used at Indiana has a social, multidisciplinary focus. Our incomplete canvas found an M.S. in information science at Drexel in 1963, thus far the earliest iDegree of which we are aware.