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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.

  • Latest Issue

    VOLUME 17, NUMBER 2
    FALL 2007

    (ISSN 1092–7441)
    Published July 2009

 

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.
 

Dominican University ‘s C.W. Follett Lectures have included

Year

Follett Chair

Lecture Title

March 3, 2009

Steven L. Herb

Stories and Storytelling: How Humans Become People

April 23, 2008

Steven L. Herb

Life, Literacy and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Importance of Libraries in the Lives of Young Children

February 28, 2007

Edward J. Valauskas

The Library is Dead: Long Live the Library

February 15, 2006

Edward J. Valauskas

The Googlization of Libraries: Debunking the Internet Godzilla Myth

February 2, 2005
Inaugural

Edward J. Valauskas

On Being Open: The Real Meaning of Open Access, Open Content and Open Source



McCusker Lectures

The Dominican University GSLIS McCusker Lectures have included:
 

Year

Name

Position

2009

Nicolas Barker

The Book: Past, Present and Future

2008

Terry Belanger

University Professor, Honorary Curator of Special Collections, Director of the Rare Book School, University of Virginia

2007

Stephanie Mills

Author of Epicurean Simplicity, and Whatever Happened to Ecology?

2006

Hazel Rochman

Author and Booklist Assistant Editor

2005

Mary Minow

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).

2004

Nicholas A. Basbanes

author, lecturer and bibliophile

2003

Kathleen de la Pena McCook

distinguished university professor

2002

Louise S. Robbins

professor and director of the School of Library and Information Studies

2001

Kathryn Deiss

director of Education and Training, Chicago Library System

2000

Glorianna St. Clair

former editor of College and Research Libraries and the Journal of Academic Librarianship and current editor of Portal

1999

John N. Berry, III

editor-in-chief, Library Journal

1998

James M. Matarazzo

dean, GSLIS, Simmons College

1997 Inaugural

Prudence W. Dalrymple

dean, GSLIS, Dominican University

 


Lazerow Lectures

Dominican 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.

Dominican University’s Lazerow Lectures have included

Year

Name

Position

2008

Rosalind W. Picard

Founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory

2007

Brian Kenney

Editor-in-Chief, School Library Journal

2006

Sandra Braman

Professor of Communications, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

2005

Pippa Norris

McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Govt. at Harvard

2004

Joseph Janes

associate professor and chair of Library and Information Science

2003

Siva Vaidhyanthan

author of The Anarchist in the Library

2002

Blaise Cronin

dean and Rudy Professor of Information Science at Indiana University

2002

Wayne Wiegand

professor at the School of Library and Information Studies

2001

Martin Dillon

former executive director of the OCLC Institute

2000

Sylvia Piggot

World Bank and International Monetary Fund

1999

Ronald Dunn

Higher Education Group, International Thomson Publishing, and past president, Information Industry Association

1998

Ward Shaw

chairman and CEO, CARL Corporation

1997

Jose-Marie Griffiths

chief information officer, University of Michigan

1996

Trevor Haywood

dean of the School of Language, Literature and Information Systems, University of Central England

1995

Paul Evan Peters

executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information

1994

Paul Strassman

CEO, Strassman, Inc., previously head of information systems for Xerox, Inc. and assistant secretary of the Army for information systems

1993

Clifford Lynch

former director of the Division of Library Automation for the University of California System, currently the executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information