While students choose Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) for its academic challenges and outstanding reputation, they also select it for flexibility and accessibility of courses. The majority of GSLIS students are working adults who manage significant job and family responsibilities while pursuing their graduate education. With courses scheduled in convenient time blocks and offered at multiple locations, part-time students can pursue a course of study that meets their time constraints.
The basic courses in the The Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS), Certificate of Special Studies and combined-degree programs are offered during fall, spring and summer terms in mornings, afternoons, evenings and on some weekends.
The Dominican University Information Technology Department:
The Dominican University Rebecca Crown Library
From 1984 to 1989, GSLIS published the International Journal of Reviews in Library and Information Science. In 1990, GSLIS began Third World Libraries, a professional journal with a focus on libraries and socioeconomic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Its scope was broadened and the title changed to World Libraries in 1996. World Libraries is published twice a year and is indexed in Library Literature, Library and Information Science Abstracts, PAIS International, PAIS Select and Current Index to Journals in Education.
Beginning in the summer of 2005 WL has evolved into an electronic journal, first co-publishing with the print edition and then moving to an internet only edition. In addition to publishing new issues, the journal will continue to add articles from our archive as well as unique, web only content.
LECTURE SERIES HISTORY
GSLIS sponsors a number of distinguished lecturers and seminars. It also hosts informal events for the library community and alumni. Refer to the Dominican Web site at www.dom.edu/gslis for a calendar of events.
Follett Chair Lectures
FOLLETT CHAIR LECTURE
Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science presented its inaugural C.W. Follett Lecture on Wednesday, February 2, 2005 in the Eloise Martin Recital Hall. The Follett Chair in Library and Information Science was established in 2003 and is endowed through a gift from the Follett Corporation, a leading provider of educational solutions, services and products that empower school, libraries, colleges, students and lifelong learners. The Follett Chair links GSLIS more closely to the professional community through educational and service activities and is one of only four such chairs in the United States.
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Dominican University ‘s C.W. Follett Lectures have included
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Year
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Follett Chair
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Lecture Title
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March 3, 2009
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Steven L. Herb
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Stories and Storytelling: How Humans Become People
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April 23, 2008
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Steven L. Herb
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Life, Literacy and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Importance of Libraries in the Lives of Young Children
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February 28, 2007
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Edward J. Valauskas
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The Library is Dead: Long Live the Library
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February 15, 2006
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Edward J. Valauskas
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The Googlization of Libraries: Debunking the Internet Godzilla Myth
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February 2, 2005
Inaugural
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Edward J. Valauskas
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On Being Open: The Real Meaning of Open Access, Open Content and Open Source
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McCusker LecturesThe Dominican University GSLIS McCusker Lectures have included:
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Year
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Name
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Position
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2009
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Nicolas Barker
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The Book: Past, Present and Future
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2008
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Terry Belanger
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University Professor, Honorary Curator of Special Collections, Director of the Rare Book School, University of Virginia
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2007
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Stephanie Mills
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Author of Epicurean Simplicity, and Whatever Happened to Ecology?
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2006
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Hazel Rochman
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Author and Booklist Assistant Editor
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2005
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Mary Minow
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attorney, former public branch librarian and past president of the California Association of Library Trustees and Comissioners. Minow is also co-author, with Thomas Lipinski, of The Library's Legal Answer Book (ALA Editions: 2003).
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2004
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Nicholas A. Basbanes
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author, lecturer and bibliophile
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2003
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Kathleen de la Pena McCook
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distinguished university professor
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2002
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Louise S. Robbins
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professor and director of the School of Library and Information Studies
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2001
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Kathryn Deiss
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director of Education and Training, Chicago Library System
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2000
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Glorianna St. Clair
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former editor of College and Research Libraries and the Journal of Academic Librarianship and current editor of Portal
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1999
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John N. Berry, III
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editor-in-chief, Library Journal
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1998
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James M. Matarazzo
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dean, GSLIS, Simmons College
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1997 Inaugural
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Prudence W. Dalrymple
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dean, GSLIS, Dominican University
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Lazerow LecturesDominican University is pleased to be one of the few graduate schools of library and information science accredited by the American Library Association to receive the coveted annual Lazerow Lectureship award from ISI. The lecture honors the memory of Samuel Lazerow, who was an eminent library administrator and pioneer in the use of electronic information systems to automate library operations and services.
The purpose of this lecture series is to expose students and faculty to leading thinkers in the area of information technology and the ramifications of its burgeoning capability upon information policy and public policy in general.
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Dominican University’s Lazerow Lectures have included
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Year
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Name
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Position
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2008
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Rosalind W. Picard
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Founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory
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2007
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Brian Kenney
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Editor-in-Chief, School Library Journal
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2006
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Sandra Braman
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Professor of Communications, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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2005
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Pippa Norris
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McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Govt. at Harvard
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2004
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Joseph Janes
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associate professor and chair of Library and Information Science
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2003
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Siva Vaidhyanthan
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author of The Anarchist in the Library
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2002
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Blaise Cronin
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dean and Rudy Professor of Information Science at Indiana University
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2002
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Wayne Wiegand
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professor at the School of Library and Information Studies
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2001
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Martin Dillon
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former executive director of the OCLC Institute
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2000
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Sylvia Piggot
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World Bank and International Monetary Fund
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1999
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Ronald Dunn
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Higher Education Group, International Thomson Publishing, and past president, Information Industry Association
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1998
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Ward Shaw
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chairman and CEO, CARL Corporation
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1997
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Jose-Marie Griffiths
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chief information officer, University of Michigan
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1996
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Trevor Haywood
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dean of the School of Language, Literature and Information Systems, University of Central England
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1995
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Paul Evan Peters
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executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information
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1994
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Paul Strassman
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CEO, Strassman, Inc., previously head of information systems for Xerox, Inc. and assistant secretary of the Army for information systems
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1993
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Clifford Lynch
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former director of the Division of Library Automation for the University of California System, currently the executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information
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