Florida State University School of Information Studies 2003-4 Epps Lecture

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Florida State UniversitySchool of Information
Studies2003-4 Epps Lecture

• Fulfilling Our Destiny From Library to
  Information School

Mike Eisenberg, Dean The Information
School University of Washington January 30, 2004
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Agenda

• From There to Here
• Trends in higher education
• Implications and impact for library and
  information science
• Critical mass and approach
• Attributes of schools of information
• Overall Attributes
• Research
• Academic programs
• Outreach
• Administration
• The information school movement and some thoughts
  about librarianship
• Summary and Q A

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Change

• Calvin says, I thrive on making other people
  change.

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Technology
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Technology
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The Traditional Library School

• One degree program - professional masters
• Small numbers
• students lt200
• faculty lt10
• staff lt5
• budget lt1 million
• Low, or even no visibility - on campus and in the
  broader community
• Inadequate space and facilities
• Low research profile and funding
• Low level of gifts and fund-raising
• Core constituency (library field) is often
  disgruntled and minimally supportive

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The Reality of Higher Education Today

• The research imperative produce or perish.
• For academic programs, there is no free lunch.
• If not high impact, at least high visibility.
• Fund raising who loves ya, baby?
• Big (or at least critical mass) is beautiful.
• While not futile its still feudal.

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The Result for Library Schools

• Closings (although not as many as you might
  think, particularly in recent years).
• Move to one of many departments in a larger unit
  (e.g., liberal arts).
• Merger with another unit (communications,
  computer science, education)
• Expansion, continued independence, success and
  flourishing!

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FTE Masters Students in ALA Accredited Programs
1992/93 8348
1993/94 10015
1994/95 8542
1995/96 8187
1996/97 7987
1997/98 7783
1998/99 7571
1999/00 8186
2000/01 9035
2001/02 9858
18 increase
Data Provided By ALA Office of Accreditation,
Jan. 2004
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The Independent Information SchoolCritical Mass

• Programs on all levels bachelors, masters,
  doctorate
• Visibility-on campus in the broader community
  support by the library community
• 300-500 students
• 15-20 faculty, 5-10 staff
• 2-3 million annual budget
• 1 million annually in research funding
• 1 million annual fund-raising permanent
  endowment includes funded chairs
• State-of-the-art facilities and space

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The Independent Information SchoolCritical
Understandings and Approaches

• Recognize the politics, pressures, and priorities
  of higher education today.
• Embody collaboration (on campus, in the
  community, and in the field). Bake more pies.
• Be creative and entrepreneurial. Gain a can- and
  will-do reputation.
• Have a clear sense of where you are and where you
  want to be.
• Strive for identity, visibility and brand.

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Agenda

• From There to Here
• Trends in higher education
• Implications and impact for library and
  information science
• Critical mass and approach
• Attributes of schools of information
• Overall Attributes
• Research
• Academic programs
• Outreach
• Administration
• The information school movement and some thoughts
  about librarianship
• Summary and Q A

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Example The UW iSchool

• Reputation innovative and ambitious
• The iSchool gets things done
• Use diverse funding models
• Leads in effective and efficient use of IT
• Innovative in distance learning
• A team-player
• Active research agenda - involves the full range
  of faculty and many students across all programs
• Committed to undergraduate and graduate education
• Celebrate the professional and the academic
• Collaborative
• research
• academic programs
• service and outreach
• management and problem-solving

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Overall Attributes

• User-focused value people.
• Broad-based.
• Celebrate the professional and the academic.
• Innovative, entrepreneurial, risk-taking.
• Committed to meaningful work--to making a
  difference.
• View problems as opportunities e.g., the
  information society is a mess yippee!

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Example The UW iSchool

• A broad-based, inclusive, global information
  school. Noted for collaboration, high quality,
  and high impact.

The Information School of the University of
Washington
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Research

• Broad-based inclusive
• Across all faculty
• Theoretical and applied
• Collaborative (within faculty, across campus, and
  with colleagues nationally)
• Involves students on all levels

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Common Binding Perspective
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The Information Perspective
We all

• think information
• focus on people
• help people learn

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Research Areas

• biomedical informatics
• cataloging conceptualization, use, and design
• classification
• cognitive work analysis
• computer-supported cooperative work
• electronic government
• design methods for systems and information
• digital libraries
• digital reference
• human-computer interaction
• human information behavior

• information ethics
• information literacy for life-long learning
• information management
• information and quality of life
• information policy
• information retrieval
• information services
• information technology management
• information and system dynamics
• information systems for children and young adults

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Research Areas

• intellectual property
• interaction design
• international aspects of information systems
• knowledge management
• knowledge organization
• natural language processing
• networks technology, community, and society
• organizational impacts of information systems
• organizational learning
• organizational sustainability
• personal information management

• philosophy theory of information and library
• privacy rights
• school and public library services for children
  and young adults
• socio-technical analyses of information systems
• text and data-mining
• user centered design evaluation of information
  systems
• value sensitive design

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A Sample of iSchool Research

• A New Learning Opportunity for Librarians The
  K-12 Library Initiative (Marcoux, PI)
• professional development and "tool kit" of
  instructional resources for transforming school
  library media programs.
• Keeping Found Things Found (Bruce, Jones,
  Eisenberg, PIs)
• Once found, how are things organized for
  re-access and re-use later on?
• Improving Information Interactions Online
  (Ivory-Ndiaye, PI)
• Apporaches to to automate the evaluation of
  information-centric Web interfaces are being
  investigated as part of the WebTango project.
• The Center for Human-Information Interaction
  (Fidel, Mai PIs)
• Information systems and technology development
  based on understanding how humans interact with
  information. Focused on human-information
  interaction in the workplace, using the Cognitive
  Work Analysis framework.
• Technology in Transition The Cooperative
  Appropriation of Wireless Networking (McDonald,
  PI)
• How the Seattle Wireless Network(SWN) group
  overcomes challenges to develop a public access
  wireless network? Focused on the collaborative
  activity among the group, relations with other
  community organizations.

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Research ProgramActive Funded Projects
September 2002 23
September 2003 27
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Last 6 Months

• 15 proposals submitted
• 12 funded
• 8 in process (this month)
• 4 in development
• Almost all tenure-track faculty represented
• NSF, IMLS, corporate

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Research ProgramsExpenditures
FYs 92-97 FY 98 FY 99 FY 00 FY 01 FY 02 FY 03 FY 04 (est.)
51,212 54,858 89,377 168,156 664,182 956,003 1,941,678 2,100,000
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Undergraduate Research Symposium

• 54 of graduating Informatics majors participated
  14/26
• 30 of ALL Informatics majors participated
  21/69
• 2 presentations
• 10 poster sessions

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Undergraduate Research Symposium Presentations

• Andy E-Sok Hong and Anthony Bigalbal, Making
  Environmental Policy Human-Centered Analysis of
  Knowledge Sharing between Cross Functional
  Groups.
• Faculty Sponsors H. Bruce and Oyler
• Ann Hendrickson and Anna Stolyar, Physiological
  Effects of Viewing a Plasma Display Window.
• Faculty Sponsors Kahn and Friedman
• Poster sessions - 10
• Key Faculty Sponsors Hendry and McDonald

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Academic ProgramsBroad-based, across all levels

• BS in Informatics
• Master of Library Information Science
• MS in Information Management
• PhD in Information Science
• Certificate and Outreach Programs

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Academic ProgramsEnrollment
Program 98/99 99/00 00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04
Informatics 27 56 70 70
MLIS 187 191 178 175 148 168
MLIS-eve 75 85 102 96
Dist. MLIS 37 70
MSIM 31 69 63
PhD 4 12 15 23
TOTAL 187 191 284 359 441 490
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Academic ProgramsProjected Enrollment
Program 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07
Informatics 70 140 140 140
MLIS (day) 168 160 150 150
MLIS (evening) 96 70 35 0
MLIS (distance) 70 105 140 200
MSIM (exec) 63 68 70 70
MSIM (day) -- -- 35 70
PhD 23 30 35 40
DLIM -- -- 10 20
TOTAL 490 573 615 690
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Academic ProgramsAlso Being Considered
(Long-Term)

• Service courses
• develop INFO 101 Information in Society
• Certificate programs
• group Masters level certificate programs into a
  professional degree offering
• combine MSIM core and one or more specializations
  into a professional degree
• Degree programs
• collaborative information management effort with
  the Evans School of Public Affairs

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Service and Outreach

• Community
• Washington Research Foundation
• School Districts Seattle, Lake Washington,
  Shoreline, Marysville (and numerous others)
• Washington State Library
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• First Place Schools
• OCLC
• Seattle Public Library, KCLS, and numerous other
  public and academic libraries
• Seattle Society for Information Management (SIM)

• Campus
• Computer Science Engineering
• Biomedical and Health Informatics
• University Libraries
• Education Partnerships and Learning Technologies
• Cell Systems Initiative (CSI)
• Department of Geography
• Philosophy Department
• Computing Communications
• UW Educational Outreach
• Evans School of Public Affairs
• Technical Communications
• School of Art
• IT Resource Sharing Group (small schools and
  colleges)

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Status in the Community

• Private Sector
• iSchool Connection connecting the information
  industry with faculty and students through
  projects, meetings and presentations
• Chief Information Officer (CIO) outreach project
• Placement of graduates
• Public Sector
• Library connections
• Involved with professional organizations in WA,
  OR, MT, AK
• Washington State Library
• Regular contact with Northwest Library Directors
• Educational Partnerships - faculty involvement
• Fisher and Marcoux
• Sutton, Saxton, Marcoux, L. Bruce
• Louis Fox

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Community Examples

• First Place School Lorraine Bruce
• Washington Library Association Presidents
  Award 2003 Michael Eisenberg
• Washington Library Media Association
  Presidents Award 2003 Betty Marcoux

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Administration

• Not a dirty word.
• The art and science of making dreams come true
• Requires buy-in and participation by all members
  of the community.

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Administration
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Administration

• Faculty
• Processes, Policies Procedures
• Budget
• Development
• Facilities
• Administrative Support

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ProcessesChanges in Structure and Staff

• Student Services
• staff restructuring
• hiring new staff (Student Services Administrator,
  Program Assistant, Graduate Program Assistant)
• Research
• research processes and information
• Roosevelt Commons facility
• Information Technology
• discussing collaboration with other small schools
  and colleges
• Development and Community Relations
• External Relations position
• restructuring

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ProcessesPlanning Decision-Making

• Planning Days and Retreats
• 2 Day Retreat (Fall) All Staff and Faculty
• Curriculum Planning Day (Winter Quarter)
• Research Planning Day (Spring Quarter)
• Faculty Meetings
• Staff Meetings
• Elected Faculty Council
• Deans and Chairs (Kitchen Cabinet)

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Budget

• State Support
• Start-up and seed
• Grants and contracts
• Fee-based
• MSIM
• Distance MLIS
• Evening MLIS
• Certificates
• Gifts and donations

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DevelopmentWithout 4 Major Gifts
FY 01 FY 02 FY 03
of Donors of Gifts of Donors of Gifts of Donors of Gifts
Alumni 557 37,229 529 38,088 380 30,382
Corporations 10 70,775 14 33,695 21 97,519
Faculty/Staff/ Students 13 1,147 18 2,560 24 5,094
Friends/Parents 45 2,979 65 1,553 45 5,975
Foundations 3 142,248 8 197,956 6 175,832
Organizations 3 250 5 3,004 9 28,837

Total 631 254,628 639 276,856 485 343,639
                   
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Agenda

• From There to Here
• Trends in higher education
• Implications and impact for library and
  information science
• Critical mass and approach
• Attributes of schools of information
• Overall Attributes
• Research
• Academic programs
• Outreach
• Administration
• The information school movement and some thoughts
  about librarianship
• Summary and Q A

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The Information School Movement

• Share common vision, concerns and issues,
  opportunities.
• Supportive and collaborative committed to
  working together.
• Information School Deans (iSchool Deans)
  originally 5, now 9, next ?
• Other key associations
• Association for Library and Information Science
  Education (ALISE)
• Computing Research Association (CRA) IT Deans
• Professional associations
• American Library Association (ALA)
• American Society for Information Science
  Technology (ASIST)
• Association for Information Management (AIM)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Society for Information Management (SIM)

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Some Information School Friends

• University of Pittsburgh
• Syracuse University
• University of Texas
• University of Washington

• Drexel University
• Florida State University
• University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
• University of Michigan
• University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

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Librarianship

• Thriving in information schools
• Enrollment is up
• Status is high
• Inclusive traditional areas and new
  opportunities

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Michigan Perspective

• From the start, the leadership of the School of
  Information was very concerned that taking
  library out of the title must not result in
  taking library out of the school.

Unpublished Email Communication John Leslie King,
Dean and Professor, School of Information,
University of Michigan, January 2004.
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UW Example

• Beverly Cleary Chair in Childrens and Youth
  Services Fund-raising for new endowed chair at
  the Information School
• Our most distinguished alum
• Promoting childrens and youth services in
  libraries and communities
• Representing our commitment to childrens and
  youth services.

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How Some View of Libraries

• PASSIVE STATIC
• REPOSITORY OF DATED INFORMATION
• A PLACE
• OPTIONAL OR OBSOLETE

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How We View Libraries

• ACTIVE DYNAMIC
• MEET TRADITIONAL NEEDS THE NEW
• WITH QUALITY, TIMELY CONTENT
• VIRTUAL PHYSICAL 24/7
• ESSENTIAL
• PEOPLE-FOCUSED

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Library
Books
Technology

• Its not print vs. digital

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Life

• Its not air vs. water

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Technology
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• Any teacher that
• can be replaced
• by technology
• should be!

Paul Welliver, Penn State
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• Any librarian that
• can be replaced
• by technology
• should be!

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For the Library Field

• Just one opportunity (of many) to consider

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www.ukans.edu
www.csn.net/RMC/star/
www.ucpa.org/atfsc.html
www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/flc/
home.gvi.net/edoig/western/
sccac.lacoe.edu
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www.netaxs.com/edoig/home.html
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polyglot.cal.msu.edu/clear/home.html
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www.edc.org/FSC/MIH/
www.vais.net/edoig/
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www.ed.gov
larcnet.sdsu.edu//
www.educ.drake.edu/rc/RRC/mprrc.html
www.prel.hawaii.edu
sfa.ed.gov
home.gvi.net/edoig/
geminfo.org
www.educ.iastate.edu/currinst/nflrc/nflrc.html
www.ticllc.net/gpiacesi/
trio.ume.maine.edu/nceoa/nceoa.html
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www.cal.org/cal/html/nflrc.htm
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Library

• Carefully selected, managed and organized system
  of
• Information Services
• Information Resources
• Information Facilities

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Opportunity to Consider
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Agenda

• From There to Here
• Trends in higher education
• Implications and impact for library and
  information science
• Critical mass and approach
• Attributes of schools of information
• Overall Attributes
• Research
• Academic programs
• Outreach
• Administration
• The information school movement and some thoughts
  about librarianship
• Summary and Q A

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Summary

• The library school model was not sustainable in
  the reality of higher education todayand
  tomorrow.
• The information school model is inclusive,
  broad-based, with the potential for high impact,
  leadership, and fun!
• Librarianship is thriving, valued, and growing
  and in information schools.
• For people who share an information view of the
  world, this is our destiny.

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Agenda

• From There to Here
• Trends in higher education
• Implications and impact for library and
  information science
• Critical mass and approach
• Attributes of schools of information
• Overall Attributes
• Research
• Academic programs
• Outreach
• Administration
• The information school movement and some thoughts
  about librarianship
• Summary and Q A