Indiana University Trustees Approve Merger of Schools of Informatics, Library Science

From IU:

The Indiana University Board of Trustees has approved the merger of the university’s School of Informatics and School of Library and Information Science into a single school to be called the IU School of Informatics and Computing.
The change will affect schools at both the Bloomington and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campuses and is being heralded by IU President Michael A. McRobbie and administrators at both schools as an opportunity to create a single school of expanded breadth, size and quality that addresses the rapid evolution of informatics, computing and libraries.
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“Merging the two schools helps address issues of the pace of change in information and communication technologies,” [Dean Deborah] Shaw said. “It also helps prepare students in our graduate-level information and library science programs for careers that increasingly require technical skills and sophisticated understanding of the effective uses of technology.”

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