BULLETIN 19 98 2000

School of LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE Quality Education. BULLETIN Lifetime Opportunities. 19 98 2000

School of LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

When you become a student at Indiana University, you join an academic community internationally known for the excellence and diversity of its programs. Indiana University is one of the nation’s oldest and largest state universities, with eight campuses serving more than 91,000 students. IU also School of Library and Information Science offers courses through facilities at Columbus, 10th and Jordan Elkhart, and many other sites. Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405-1801 Indiana University Campuses (812) 855-2018 Indiana University Bloomington Toll-free in U.S.: 1-888-335-SLIS (7547) Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis Fax: (812) 855-6166 Indiana University East (Richmond) http://www.slis.indiana.edu Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne Indiana University Kokomo Indiana University Northwest (Gary) Indiana University is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools Indiana University South Bend (NCA) through the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, 30 N. LaSalle Street, Indiana University Southeast (New Albany) Suite 2400, Chicago, Illinois 60602-2504; 1-800-621-7440.

While every effort is made to provide accurate and current information, Indiana University reserves the right to change without notice statements in the bulletin series concerning rules, policies, fees, curricula, courses, or other matters. Administration Indiana University MYLES BRAND, Ph.D., President of the University HERMAN B WELLS, A.M., LL.D., Chancellor of the University KENNETH R. R. GROS LOUIS, Ph.D., Vice President for Academic Affairs and Chancellor, Indiana University Bloomington GERALD L. BEPKO, LL.M., Vice President for Long-Range Planning and Chancellor, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis J. TERRY CLAPACS, M.B.A., Vice President for Administration JUDITH G. PALMER, J.D., Vice President and Chief Financial Officer GEORGE E. WALKER, Ph.D., Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON, M.A., Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations MICHAEL A. McROBBIE, Ph.D., Vice President for Information Technology STEVEN A. MILLER, M.B.A., Treasurer of the University DAVID J. FULTON, Ph.D., Chancellor of Indiana University East MICHAEL A. WARTELL, Ph.D., Chancellor of Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne EMITA B. HILL, Ph.D., Chancellor of Indiana University Kokomo and Chancellor Liaison HILDA RICHARDS, Ed.D., Chancellor of Indiana University Northwest KENNETH L. PERRIN, Ph.D., Chancellor of Indiana University South Bend F. C. RICHARDSON, Ph.D., Chancellor of Indiana University Southeast Bloomington Campus KENNETH R. R. GROS LOUIS, Ph.D., Vice President for Academic Affairs and Chancellor, Indiana University Bloomington J. PETER BURKHOLDER, Ph.D., Acting Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Acting Dean of the Faculties MAYNARD D. THOMPSON, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor and Dean for Budgetary Administration and Planning DONALD R. HOSSLER, Ph.D., Acting Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Services RICHARD N. McKAIG, Ed.D., Dean of Students JULIA LAMBER, J.D., Dean for Women’s Affairs, and Interim Director, Office of Affirmative Action LAWRENCE J. HANKS, Ph.D., Dean for African American Affairs ALBERTO TORCHINSKY, Ph.D., Dean for Latino Affairs MARY ELLEN ANDERSON, M.S., Acting Director of Admissions R. GERALD PUGH, Ed.D., Registrar Indianapolis Campus GERALD L. BEPKO, LL.M., Vice President for Long-Range Planning and Chancellor, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis WILLIAM M. PLATER, Ph.D., Executive Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Faculties TRUDY W. BANTA, Ed.D., Vice Chancellor for Planning and Institutional Improvement J. HERMAN BLAKE, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education ROBERT E. MARTIN, M.P.A., Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance APPOINTMENT PENDING, Vice Chancellor for External Affairs LILLIAN L. CHARLESTON, M.S., Campus Affirmative Action Officer ALAN N. CRIST, Ph.D., Director of Enrollment Services MARK C. GROVE, M.P.A., Registrar School of Library and Information Science INDIANA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN BLAISE CRONIN, Ph.D., Dean OFFICIAL SERIES (USPS 262440) DEBORA SHAW, Ph.D., Associate Dean ISSN 0888-5338 MARY E. KRUTULIS, M.L.S., Assistant Dean

Periodicals postage paid at Bloomington, Indiana. Published twenty times a year (one time in January, February, March, April, October, November, and December; two times in May, June, and September; three times in July; four times in August) by Indiana University from the Office of Publications, 638 N. Rogers, Bloomington, IN 47404-3701. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to INDIANA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN MAIL ROOM, 300 N. Jordan, Bloomington, IN 47405-7700. Indiana University chose to print this bulletin with soy-based ink on recycled paper, both of which are more environmentally sound than traditional printing materials. Vol. XCVI, No. 1 Bloomington, Indiana January 1998 You can make another sound choice. Please recycle this bulletin. 1 Contents The World of Information 1 The World of Information 20 Doctoral Program Components 2 The School of Library and Information 20 Major For decades, scholars and futurists have societies. Being information literate means Science 20 SLIS Required Seminars predicted an information revolution. Those knowing how information is created, stored, 2 History 20 Research Skills Core predictions have come to life dramatically in transmitted, and used. The ‘‘informatization’’ 2 Mission 20 Minor recent years. We live in an information age, an of society is creating demand for specialists 3 Goals of the M.L.S. Program 20 Courses Outside the Major age in which the ability to generate and access who will function as information resource 3 Objectives for Students in the M.L.S. 20 Dissertation Credit new knowledge has become a key driver of managers and act as guides, interpreters, Program 20 Qualifying Examination social and economic growth. This conviction is mediators, brokers, and quality controllers for 3 Goals of the M.I.S. Program 21 Admission to Candidacy powerfully reflected in the development of the the ultimate user, who might be a corporate 3 Objectives for Students in the M.I.S. 21 The Dissertation Information Superhighway and in the feverish executive, a scientist, or a schoolchild. Today’s Program 21 Maintaining Active Student Status spate of takeovers and joint ventures in the information professionals do not merely store 3 Goals of the Ph.D. Program 21 Seven-Year Rule telecommunications, cable, and computer and locate information, they also analyze and 3 Objectives for Students in the Ph.D. 21 Portfolio industries, as the major players position synthesize raw data to produce customized, Program 21 Research Committee themselves to be in the vanguard of the digital value-added services and products for a 4 Location and Facilities 21 Selecting a Committee revolution. Such developments are diverse clientele. The field offers a 5 Admission to Graduate Programs 22 Dissertation Proposal transforming both scholarly and lay kaleidoscope of career tracks from which to 5 Application Procedures for U.S. Citizens 22 Use of Human Subjects perceptions of the value of information. choose, as the mass of position announcements in both the professional and generalist press 5 Application Deadlines for U.S. Citizens 23 Dissertation Manuscript Historically, information has been treated as a 6 Application Procedures for International makes abundantly clear: information systems 23 Final Oral Defense public good, freely available to citizens. That Students 23 General Information analysis, database design and marketing, model is coming under pressure, as the full 6 Application Deadlines for International 23 Grade Computation information brokering, medical informatics, economic and social significance of systems librarianship, competitor intelligence Students 24 Grade of Incomplete information becomes apparent. In many 7 Admission Criteria analysis, Web design. In a sense, the 24 Deferred Grade (R) developed nations, the information sector is 7 Master of Library Science/Master of opportunities are limited only by the 24 Computer Accounts among the fastest growing segments of the Information Science Degree Programs imagination. 24 Placement economy. The emergence of a dynamic global 7 Admission Categories 24 SLIS Alumni Association information industry has created a wealth of On one issue there is widespread agreement: 8 Advising 24 Summer Sessions opportunities for appropriately educated the effective management of information 8 Specialists in Library and Information 24 Financial Aid information professionals, but it has also systems and resources is critical to successful Science Degree Program 26 SLIS Financial Support for Doctoral helped throw into relief a raft of complex organizational performance. That is as true of 8 Doctor of Philosophy Degree Program Students public policy issues, such as privatization of a Fortune 500 corporation as of a hospital or a 10 Degree Requirements 27 Courses government-held information resources, the small liberal arts college. Information 10 Master of Library Science/Master of 33 Faculty management of intellectual property rights, resources include, but are by no means Information Science Degree Programs 36 Indiana University and the possible emergence of an information synonymous with, the materials held in 10 Computer-Based Information Skills underclass, all of which call for rigorous and libraries, archives, and documentation centers. 10 Probation Policy informed policy analysis. In the Information Age, organizations of all 10 Time Requirements kinds are waking up to the fact that intellectual 10 Foreign Language The signs of a new age are everywhere: capital is one of their most important 11 Course Requirements personal computers in the classroom, resources—the basis of comparative advantage 11 Common Core Requirements interactive media in the home, global and superior service delivery. It is this 11 M.L.S. Degree Requirements communication networks, electronic awareness, as much as the highly visible 11 M.I.S. Degree Requirements publishing, digital libraries. The statistics are information technologies, which is responsible 12 Joint Programs irresistible; the amount of information for transforming the ways in which business, 16 School Library/Media and Information produced in the last decade alone is greater commerce, professional affairs, and Technology Certification than all the information created in past contemporary scholarship are being 16 School Library Services Minor millennia. Public awareness of the importance conducted. 17 School Media Services Major and the of information has never been stronger, as is M.L.S. evidenced by national debate on issues such as Libraries, too, are changing. Once passive 17 Courses Open to Undergraduates the emerging Infobahn and censorship in storehouses, they have in some cases become 17 Public Library Certification cyberspace. The rhetoric of the Information active agents of social change and early Requirements Age has finally become reality. And that adopters of new information and 18 Specialist in Library and Information reality translates into unprecedented career communication technologies. The range of Science opportunities for information professionals materials and media they handle has 18 Doctor of Philosophy who know how to organize, manage, and diversified enormously in the last decade. 18 SLIS Minor exploit information assets; who combine Access to full-text databases, networked 18 Ph.D. Program Requirements analytic and technical skills with a sense of the resources, and multimedia information 18 Course Credits strategic value of information to organizations systems has become the norm in a matter of 18 Research Ability of all kinds. years, fueled in no small measure by the 19 Doctoral Dissertation prodigious growth of the Internet and the 19 SLIS Program of Studies The economic and social well-being of nations World Wide Web. The next generation 19 Course Revalidation depends increasingly on their ability to promises even greater advances—digital 19 Advisory Committee generate and access new knowledge. Hence, a libraries, intelligent interfaces, interactive need exists to create information-literate 19 Program of Studies Form books, collaboratories, knowbots, virtual 2 3 reality. Indiana University’s School of Library holdings. Included in this system is the skills necessary to function as critical thinkers 2. Develop and organize collections of and Information Science is responding to the prestigious Lilly Library, which is and effective communicators. Graduates information to meet user needs and assist challenge of the Information Age with a internationally known for its rare books, should have a strong grounding in theory and their publics in using those collections. flexible and future-based curriculum. manuscripts, and special collections. the ability to translate theory into effective 3. Demonstrate the management skills and practice. technical expertise necessary to support The IU School of Library and Information and implement information policies and The School of Library Science is a member of the Association for To provide a proper setting for the programs. Library and Information Science Education, implementation of this mission, the school and Information Science the American Library Association, the promotes the advancement of knowledge, both Goals of the M.I.S. program The School of Library and Information Science American Society for Information Science, and theoretical and applied, through active The school has identified the following goals (SLIS) at Indiana University ranks consistently the Special Libraries Association. It maintains programs of research and scholarly for the Master of Information Science program: in the top five or ten programs in North affiliation with a number of other national and publication. The school also provides service 1. To develop an understanding of the America, and its master’s and doctoral international bodies in library and information within the university and to the local, national, theoretical and empirical bases of enrollments are among the largest in the science. and international communities through information science. contributions to, and leadership in, nation. In a recent 11-year survey of scholarly The History of SLIS at Indiana 2. To promote an understanding of the productivity, the school was ranked number associations and organizations and by economic, social, and strategic value of one in North America in terms of its peer- University assuming consulting, advising, publishing, information. reviewed publication output. The M.L.S. The first organized library science curriculum and other professional roles. This leadership 3. To showcase a range of information (Master of Library Science) degree has been at Indiana University, a program for the by example is considered essential in analysis and management techniques. accredited continuously since 1953. The preparation of school librarians, was offered providing a framework in which the goals of recently introduced M.I.S. (Master of by the School of Education in the summer of the program can be pursued effectively. Objectives for Students in the M.I.S. Information Science) degree adds another 1930. In 1938 this curriculum was expanded The school also provides opportunities for Program avenue of entry to the information professions. and made available in the regular school year students to seek educational experiences Students who complete curricular and other In addition to the two master’s programs, the as well as the summer session. involving the development of the specialized requirements of the program will be able to school offers a Ph.D. in Information Science, a In 1947 the Division of Library Science was skills currently emphasized in information- 1. Analyze information needs and plan and Specialist in Library and Information Science, established within the School of Education. A providing agencies. The development of these develop information delivery/access specializations in Chemical Information, basic undergraduate curriculum in library skills often highlights current trends in systems for business, industry, African Studies Librarianship, and Music science concerned with the fundamental information systems and information government, academic, or nonprofit Librarianship, and a dual master’s/Doctor of processes common to all types of libraries was management that serve to assist the student in organizations. Jurisprudence program with the School of offered as a minor within the four-year career planning. Such educational experiences 2. Understand the nature and role of the Law. There are also dual master’s degree program leading to the Bachelor of Arts or are gained through selection of elective information industry. programs with the Schools of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Science degree in the College of courses from the School of Library and 3. Understand and use communication and Journalism, Music, and Public and Arts and Sciences or to the Bachelor of Science Information Science, through cooperation with information technologies in support of Environmental Affairs and the Departments of in Education degree in the School of other graduate programs of the university, and organizational objectives. Comparative Literature, History, History and Education. through seminars, workshops, conferences, 4. Develop appropriate information Philosophy of Science, Latin American and and practicum experiences. management strategies and policies for Caribbean Studies, and Russian and East Fifty Years of Graduate Education in Library organizations. European Studies. Also available is course and Information Science: 1949-99 Goals of the M.L.S. Program work leading to certification in public libraries A five-year program leading to the Master of The school has identified the following goals Goals of the Ph.D. Program and in school media. Arts with a major in library science, granted by for the Master of Library Science program: The school has identified the following goals the Graduate School, was created in 1949, and At SLIS we bring fresh insights to bear on 1. To promote an understanding of the role of for the Doctor of Philosophy in Information a Ph.D. program in library and information libraries in society, and of the professional Science: information design, access, and policy issues science was established in 1964. by looking at information and information and ethical responsibilities of librarians. 1. To promote a common understanding of technologies in diverse human contexts. We In 1966 the Trustees of Indiana University 2. To foster a user-centered approach to the the research process and what constitutes seek to understand the behaviors, cognitive established the Graduate Library School and development and management of scholarly research. factors, human contexts, social practices, the professional degree Master of Library information resources. 2. To prepare scholars who are able to media, and tools that foster and hinder Science (M.L.S.), replacing the Master of Arts 3. To understand the theory and practice of identify and conceptualize significant effective information use. We place a strong degree granted by the Graduate School. The information collection, organization, research problems. emphasis on the social and behavioral Specialist degree program was added to the retrieval, and analysis with regard to print, 3. To train scholars who are able to produce dimensions of information technology. curriculum in 1978. In 1980 the name of the nonprint, and electronic resources. relevant research and who have the overall school was officially changed to School of 4. To prepare professionals who will promote potential for contributing new knowledge SLIS has a full-time faculty of 20, Library and Information Science (SLIS). The access to information and be aware of their to the field. supplemented by a distinguished emeritus, addition of the Master of Information Science role in an information-based society. 4. To prepare students for professional roles visiting, and adjunct faculty. as researchers, teachers, and consultants in (M.I.S.) degree in 1995 reflects the school’s Objectives for Students in the continuing commitment to change. both academic and nonacademic settings. The School of Library and Information Science M.L.S. Program is located on the Bloomington campus, with a Objectives for Students in the Ph.D. satellite program at Indianapolis. All students The Mission of SLIS Students who complete curricular and other have access to the extraordinary physical and The school provides students with an requirements of the program will be able to Program human resources of Indiana University’s eight understanding of the conceptual foundations 1. Understand the generation and By completion of their Ph.D. program, doctoral campuses, including one of the largest of librarianship and information science and of dissemination of information and the role students should be able to university computing networks in the world the multi-faceted nature of the wider of libraries and information centers in the 1. Demonstrate their ability to generate and a university library system that ranks information environment. It prepares students communication process. original research that meets the scholarly thirteenth in the nation in terms of its with a rich mix of knowledge, attitudes, and standards of the field. 4 5

2. Communicate the findings of their work, Using the Virtual Indiana Classroom (VIC) orally and in writing, in a clear, convincing and Indiana Higher Education Television Admission to Graduate Programs fashion to other scholars in this and related System (IHETS), SLIS delivers courses and disciplines. workshops—designed to meet certification Application Procedures usually in October, December, February, requirements and professional continuing April, and June, at hundreds of cities Location and Facilities education needs—to various locations for U.S. Citizens throughout the United States and in many The School of Library and Information Science throughout the state. Many of these courses other countries. Scores are available about (SLIS) is housed in the Main Library on the offered through distance education may be A packet of application materials for the six weeks after the test is taken. It is the Bloomington campus. SLIS courses are also applied to a SLIS degree program, provided Master’s or Specialist Degree Programs may be responsibility of the applicant to take the taught on the Indianapolis campus. Courses the student has been admitted and meets all obtained from the SLIS Admissions Office, GRE test at such a time as will allow scores from either or both campuses may be applied other requirements. 10th and Jordan, Indiana University, to arrive at the Admissions Office to meet to the requirements for a SLIS master’s or Bloomington, IN 47405-1801 or the SLIS Office, all school deadlines. Specialist degree. The school’s facilities include University Library 1110C, IUPUI, Indianapolis, 6. An application fee. A check or money order a dedicated computer laboratory, lecture and IN 46204-5195. Ph.D. application materials are must be sent directly to the bursar’s office in seminar rooms, and a library and information available only from the Bloomington office. the addressed envelope provided in the science library. Please be sure to request the application packet application packet. At this writing the for the appropriate degree program—Master application fee is $40, an amount that is Both the School of Library and Information of Library Science, Master of Information subject to change without notice. Science and Indiana University as a whole are Science, Specialist, or Ph.D. All applications 7. Some programs have application very technology-intensive environments, so must be submitted to the SLIS Admissions requirements in addition to those listed the opportunities for learning and working Office in Bloomington. above. Doctoral applicants, and sometimes with technology are numerous. Application to SLIS graduate programs applicants to the Specialist and Master’s The IU School of Library and Information requires a minimum of the following Programs, will be required to visit the Science maintains two staffed microcomputer (additional requirements may be found under campus for personal interviews with school laboratories that students use extensively listings for individual degrees): faculty. For further information, see for Internet access, word processing, 1. Completed application forms. admission requirements for the degree in databases, graphics, Web development, 2. Three letters of recommendation that which you are interested. online searching, and other functions. A state- address the applicant’s academic and When completed application forms are of-the-art NT server, which went into professional capabilities should be received, an applicant’s individual file is production in the summer of 1997, provides submitted on letterhead and sent directly established, and other elements of the access to a variety of software applications. from the referring party to the SLIS application are added to the file as they are There are also two Novell local area networks, Admissions Office in Bloomington. It is the received. It is important that applicants send which provide additional storage, queues for applicant’s responsibility to ensure that the completed application as early as possible. shared printing, and access to reference letters of recommendation reach the Once an individual file has been established, databases via networked CD-ROMs. The Admissions Office by deadline dates. the admissions coordinator sends letters school also maintains a World Wide Web 3. A personal essay explaining academic and identifying missing items at regular intervals server, which hosts the SLIS Web site career objectives. until the file is complete or it becomes obvious (http://www.slis.indiana.edu) and two lower- 4. Official transcripts from each college that the deadline for application for the end servers, which students use for practice in attended (except Indiana University requested admission semester has been Web serving, Web page and site creation, and transcripts, which the school can obtain missed. Admission, once granted, is good for a learning technologies, such as client-server from the IU registrar’s online system). period of one year; however, such extended technology, which are taught in SLIS courses. From all other colleges and universities, admission cannot be guaranteed unless the applicants should arrange to have The various servers and computers are tied to admitted student informs the school of intent transcripts sent directly to SLIS. the university’s fiber-optic backbone to to matriculate at a later date. Files of admitted 5. Graduate Record Examination (GRE) provide access to the wide area network and, students who neither matriculate nor request General Test scores are required of all through it, to the Internet and all the resources an extension may be purged soon after the doctoral program applicants. Master’s available to Indiana University. This beginning of the semester for which admission degree program applicants whose grade technology infrastructure provides students was granted. An individual may check on the point average (GPA) in undergraduate with convenient and easy-to-use facilities both status of an application file or request an college work is not at least 3.0 on a 4.0 in house and throughout the IU campus and extension to a later consideration date by scale, or whose GPA on work completed the opportunity to learn and work with calling SLIS at (812) 855-2018 or toll-free within for a previous graduate degree is not 3.2 or diverse technology as it applies to library and the United States at (888) 335-SLIS. higher, must submit GRE scores in support information science. of their applications. Master’s program Application Deadlines for U.S. SLIS, in partnership with University Libraries applicants are advised that GRE scores, if Citizens provided, will be taken into account in the and University Information Technology Applications will not be acted upon until all competitive admissions process and Services, has developed a high-end usability required documents have been received awarding of departmental financial aid. laboratory for the observation of human- (including transcripts, letters of The test must have been taken within three computer interaction. Through this facility, recommendation, application fee, and test years before application. GRE information students are able to gain significant experience scores as required). Ordinarily applications for and application forms may be obtained in user observation, in software design and Master’s and Specialist degrees are processed from the Educational Testing Service, P.O. evaluation, and in research methodologies. within one month of their completion. In order Box 6000, Princeton, NJ 08541-6000. The to allow time for degree processing and GRE is administered five times per year, 6 7 financial aid decisions, applicants must meet take the GRE test at a time that will allow the following deadlines: scores to arrive at the SLIS Admissions Office Admission Criteria to meet all school deadlines. For matriculation in: Fall Spring Summer must, in all cases, remove the deficiencies Applying for International applicants whose first language Master of Library before they can earn the SLIS degree. SLIS financial aid: Jan. 15 Oct. 1 N/A is not English must submit recent official scores from the Test of English as a Foreign Science/Master of Letters of recommendation must address Not applying for academic performance, social and SLIS financial aid: May 15 Nov. 1 Mar. 15 Language (TOEFL). A minimum TOEFL score Information Science of 600 is required for admission to SLIS interpersonal skills, character, and maturity. Applicants who complete the financial aid graduate programs. The TOEFL is Degree Programs Letters from professors who are familiar with the applicant’s intellectual skills are preferred. form included with the SLIS application packet administered by the Educational Testing Students holding a bachelor’s degree from an Letters from employers and information and who have a completed file by the financial Service once each month at locations accredited four-year collegiate institution are professionals who are familiar with the aid deadlines given above will be considered throughout the world. Information about eligible to apply for admission. Applicants in applicant’s intellectual abilities and work for all aid for which they are eligible that is TOEFL administration schedules may be the final year of their undergraduate program habits are also acceptable. offered directly by the school. This includes fee obtained from the Educational Testing Service may apply and be granted admission scholarships, guaranteed hourly positions, at the address given with GRE information conditional upon their being awarded the The applicant’s 500 word essay (item 15 on the graduate assistantships, and some one-time above. bachelor’s degree. In some cases, and only M.L.S. application; item 18 on the M.I.S. cash awards that do not have additional International students whose first language is with permission of the admissions director, application) must indicate academic and requirements listed. Financial aid students in the final semester of work toward a professional goals appropriate to the desired opportunities from SLIS are detailed elsewhere not English must also take an English language placement test upon arrival at bachelor’s degree may enroll for SLIS courses SLIS degree program. The writing skills in this bulletin. For information on financial for that portion of their program not required indicated in this statement are also considered aid not directly funded by SLIS, applicants Indiana University. The results of this test are used to determine what, if any, remedial for completion of the bachelor’s degree. Unless as part of the admission decision. should contact the Office of Student Financial the bachelor’s degree is completed within that Assistance, Franklin Hall 208, Bloomington, IN English courses must be successfully Admission to all SLIS degree programs is completed before graduate study begins. semester, the credit earned may not be 47405-2806, (812) 855-3278, counted toward a SLIS master’s degree. Such subject to availability of space, and the number http://www.indiana.edu/~sfa/ International students should understand that of students admitted for any semester may all admissions are granted conditionally, upon courses must not be counted toward completion of the undergraduate degree, and vary according to the number of spaces verification of English language proficiency, available in the desired program. Application Procedures and that enrollment in graduate course work is certification of this must be submitted in not permitted, or is limited, until all language writing from the undergraduate school and Indiana University prohibits admission for International Students deficiencies have been removed. become part of the student’s official SLIS decisions being made on the basis of arbitrary record. consideration of such characteristics as age, International applicants to SLIS programs may Additional Bloomington campus information color, disability, ethnicity, gender, marital obtain application materials from the SLIS An applicant must have a minimum grade for international applicants can be found on status, national origin, race, religion, sexual Admissions Office, 10th and Jordan, Indiana point average of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) or its the International Center’s Web site at orientation, or veteran status. University, Bloomington, IN 47405-1801, (812) http://www.indiana.edu/~intlcent/ equivalent in the total undergraduate program 855-2018. Please be sure to request the or an average of 3.2 in the latest graduate Matriculation Applicants may enter SLIS application packet for the appropriate degree Application Deadlines for degree or representative graduate hours master’s degree programs at the beginning of program—Master of Library Science, Master of International Students (usually 30 semester hours) completed. The fall semester, spring semester, and the second Information Science, Specialist, or Ph.D. The The SLIS Admissions Office will not act upon SLIS Admissions Committee makes individual (eight-week) summer session. completed forms and all supporting materials applications until all required documents have judgments about the rigor of grading in the must be returned to the Office of International been received (including transcripts, letters of undergraduate or graduate course work Admission Categories Admissions, 300 N. Jordan Avenue, recommendation, application fee, and test presented and about the relative significance Unconditional admission is a full Bloomington, IN 47405-7707, (812) 855-4306. scores as required). Ordinarily, applications of course work completed at various times in nonprobationary admission status. It indicates Payment of an application fee is required. for Master’s and Specialist degrees are an applicant’s academic history. that the applicant has met all essential All international applicants for any SLIS processed within one month of being A substantial number of credit hours of admission requirements. This admission status degree program—Master’s, Specialist, or completed and received at SLIS from the Office appropriate content-based course work must is valid for one year, with an additional year Ph.D.—must submit a recent official Graduate of International Admissions. International be included in the overall undergraduate and available upon petition. If an admitted student Record Examination (GRE) General (aptitude) applicants must comply with the deadline graduate course work previously completed. fails to matriculate within the allowed time, Test score report from the Educational Testing dates indicated in international application This appropriate background includes, but is the admission status is terminated, and the Service. The test must have been taken within materials. not limited to, course work in the humanities student must reapply. three years before application. Scores on all and the social, biological, and physical The SLIS Faculty Admissions Committee may three sections (verbal, quantitative, and sciences. Not considered in this background grant probationary admission to a student who analytical) will be considered. A minimum are courses in music and theater performance, fails to meet one or more of the admission combined score of 1500 is required for an studio art, teaching and other internships, and requirements listed above, if, in the judgment application to be processed further. The similar course work. If an applicant is judged of the committee members, there is sufficient Educational Testing Service, P.O. Box 6000, deficient in background preparation, other evidence of probable success in the Princeton, NJ 08541-6000, provides GRE additional course work may be required to degree program. Probationary admission information and application forms. The GRE is remove the deficiency. Such additional course carries a requirement that the student maintain administered five times per year, usually in work may be at the undergraduate or graduate a minimum GPA of 3.0 throughout the October, December, February, April, and June, level, but it will not in any case count toward program. Other conditions of the probationary at hundreds of cities throughout the United the credit hour requirements for the SLIS admission, if any, will be stated in the States and in many other countries. Scores are degree. Ordinarily, students must remove admission letter. The student’s progress will available about six weeks after the test is deficiencies in background preparation before be monitored throughout the program to taken. It is the responsibility of the applicant to beginning the SLIS degree program, and they 8 9 ensure that the conditions are maintained. If, and sequential courses are taken at the may apply for admission to the SLIS doctoral applicants whose native language is not at any time in the program, the student does optimum times. Although SLIS students may program. Students who are admitted and have English. In addition, university policy not meet the conditions of the probation, consult with any member of the faculty, a a master’s degree in a field of study closely provides that all international students be admission will be terminated. record of consultations with the official adviser related to information science from a retested on English language abilities upon and course decisions made for each semester recognized international program, or the arrival at Indiana University. denied admission Applicants who are to a SLIS must be kept in the student’s file and will be equivalent, can be enrolled in the doctoral • Demonstrable potential for excellence in graduate program may not take course work consulted to determine eligibility for program and can transfer up to 30 credit hours conducting research. Success in a doctoral in SLIS without the permission of the dean of graduation. Completion of a required number of recognized course work. The student must program requires such characteristics as the the school. of graduate credit hours is not in itself submit official transcripts as proof of degree ability to identify and conceptualize Interim admission is a temporary status adequate to ensure that a degree will be completion. If a student is admitted who has significant research problems, the ability to available to persons who seek admission to awarded. The degree program must show an interest in information science but does not be insightful and express ideas clearly, and graduate degree or certification programs, but cohesiveness and a structured attempt to meet possess an appropriate graduate degree, the overall potential for contributing new whose applications are not complete. It allows the individual student’s academic and student will initially be enrolled in one of the knowledge to the discipline. professional goals. master’s degree programs. After 12 months, them to register for not more than 6 credit Applications from international students must hours nor more than one semester while their the student’s performance will be reviewed by the Ph.D. Steering Committee, and, if be reviewed by the Indiana University Office application is being completed. An application of International Admissions before their for a graduate degree or certification program Specialist in Library and appropriate, the student’s status will be changed to reflect admission to the doctoral review by the SLIS Doctoral Admissions must be in the SLIS Admissions Office in order Information Science Committee. for an applicant to be eligible for interim program. This status may be granted only if admission. Degree Program The formal requirements for admission SLIS encourages doctoral applicants to provide sufficient information is available, including include: the school with the most appropriate evidence academic records, to indicate that the applicant is A student holding a master’s degree in • A completed Indiana University Graduate regarding each of the admission criteria. GRE probably eligible for admission. The director of librarianship and/or information science from scores and college transcripts are usually an accredited university may apply for Application for Admission (available from admissions must approve interim admission. SLIS). sufficient to demonstrate capability of working Granting of interim admission does not guarantee admission to the Specialist Degree Program. • A bachelor’s degree from an accredited with abstract concepts in doctoral-level that the student will ultimately be admitted. Application deadlines are the same as for the Final university or college. Submit transcripts for courses and research. The essay portion of the admission decisions can be made only by the M.L.S. and M.I.S. degree programs. Additional application provides indication of the criteria for admission include the following: all course work taken and degrees SLIS Faculty Admissions Committee. completed. applicant’s commitment to research and to the • A minimum grade point average of 3.2 (on field of information science and attracts the Continuing nondegree student status • Record of academic accomplishment. An is awarded a scale of 4.0) in previous graduate course attention of relevant faculty to the application. to applicants wishing to take a small number work. applicant must have an undergraduate grade point average of at least 3.2 (on a 4.0 It is recommended that each applicant submit of credit hours for professional development. • A minimum of two years’ successful a sample or summary of previous work that is Such persons ordinarily have a graduate experience in a library, media, or scale) and a minimum grade point average of 3.5 (on a 4.0 scale) in any previous relevant to the admission criteria, such as degree in librarianship, information science, or information professional position following academic papers or work-related projects. a related field; at minimum, they must hold an award of the master’s degree. (This graduate course work. An international undergraduate degree from an accredited requirement may be waived when it is applicant’s grade point average will be college or university. Continuing nondegree deemed advantageous to the student and calculated on the basis of equivalency from students must complete all necessary acceptable to the school for the student to universities that use a different scale. prerequisites before taking any course. In no enter the specialist program directly from • Personal statement. The applicant must case may more than 6 credit hours taken as a the master’s level of study.) submit a 500-word statement of nondegree student count toward a SLIS degree. • Three letters of recommendation. professional goals that reflects a Nondegree students should understand that • A description of the applicant’s area of commitment to teaching and/or research. they may be removed from any SLIS course if interest and career plan. • Three letters of recommendation should their place is required for a degree-seeking come from persons in the professional and student. academic communities who can address Doctor of Philosophy the applicant’s scholarly and analytical With permission of the instructor, students abilities and potential for doctoral study. may register for courses on an auditing basis. Degree Program • Scores on the Graduate Record Audited courses are listed on the transcript as Admission to the doctoral program is highly Examination (GRE). Applicants must such, and no credit or grade is listed. A competitive. Application for the Ph.D. submit a recent score (within three years of student is not permitted to audit courses program is made through the School of application) on the Graduate Record without registering as an auditor and paying Library and Information Science at Examination (GRE) General (aptitude) Test the current fee for auditing. Bloomington. The doctoral program is offered as part of their admission credentials. Advising only at the Bloomington campus. Some course Scores on all three sections (verbal, work toward the doctorate may be taken at quantitative, and analytical) will be Upon admission each student is assigned an Indianapolis, and SLIS faculty members based considered. While a minimum of 1500 is official faculty adviser whose name is given in at IUPUI may serve on doctoral committees. required for an application to be processed the admission letter. Students should be aware Information about application procedures and further, we expect higher scores from that not all courses that will be required for a admission criteria are to be found in the successful applicants. International given area of study or degree will be available section of this bulletin entitled ‘‘Admission to students who find it impossible to submit during all semesters, so careful consideration Graduate Programs.’’ GRE scores may petition to have this of course offerings and schedules, as well as requirement waived. continued contact with the student’s faculty Students who have graduated with a • A TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign adviser, is required to ensure that prerequisite bachelor’s or master’s degree in any discipline Language) score above 600 is required for 10 11 Degree Requirements Course Requirements Master of Library Time Requirements Note: All course selections, both core and satisfy the student’s academic and professional All requirements for the M.L.S. and M.I.S. elective, must be made in consultation with the goals. Elective courses for the M.L.S. degree Science/Master of degrees must be met within five consecutive faculty adviser. may be chosen from the common core, the Information Science calendar years from the date of completion of M.L.S. or M.I.S. core, or the large pool of other the first credited course. In some Common Core SLIS courses available to all master’s degree Degree Programs circumstances a one-year extension of the five- students. Care must be taken to ensure that year time frame may be given, but in no case Requirements prerequisites have been satisfied before Note: Deviations from program requirements, will a longer extension be granted. Application registering for any course. In no case may waiver of required courses, or substitutions of for the a SLIS master’s degree must be A candidate for either the Master of Library more than 6 credit hours to be applied toward courses taken at other institutions or of work submitted early in the fall semester for Science or the Master of Information Science the degree come from the workshop courses experiences will not be final until approved in candidates planning to graduate in December degree must complete at least three of the listed under the L595 course number. writing by the dean or the dean’s authorized and early in the spring semester for candidates following four common core courses: representative. It is the student’s responsibility planning to graduate in May, June, or August. L503 User Needs and Behavior in Theory to ensure that documentation of all such and Practice M.I.S. Degree exceptions is in the student’s official file. Foreign Language L505 Organization and Representation of Knowledge and Information Requirements Computer-Based Information Skills Although language skills are recognized as significant and in some cases essential in the L507 The Management of Information A candidate for the Master of Information The School of Library and Information Science information professions, and although such Environments Science degree must complete 42 credit hours requires that students pursuing either the courses may be taken through the university, L509 Introduction to Research and Statistics of graduate course work; at least 36 credit Master of Library Science (M.L.S.) or the credit earned for such courses may not be hours must be taken from the IU School of Master of Information Science (M.I.S.) degree applied toward the M.L.S. or M.I.S. degree. Library and Information Science. A maximum be computer, network, and information literate M.L.S. Degree of 6 graduate credit hours from outside the IU and be familiar with basic operations that will School of Library and Information Science be used throughout the students’ course work. Requirements may, in certain circumstances and with the This knowledge is prerequisite to many A candidate for the Master of Library Science permission of the dean, be applied to the M.I.S. courses in the SLIS curriculum and will form degree must complete 36 semester credit hours degree. These 6 credit hours may be taken in the basis for further learning and skill of graduate course work, all of which must be other schools and departments of Indiana development throughout the students’ taken from the IU School of Library and University or in another appropriately academic and professional careers. To acquire Information Science. A maximum of 6 accredited collegiate institution. Outside this base, each student must complete, or graduate credit hours from another ALA- courses are warranted only when they are apply and receive a waiver for, the SLIS course accredited master’s degree program may, with more relevant to students’ career objectives L401 Computer-Based Information Tools. the permission of the dean, be applied to the and will contribute more to the enrichment of Normally, the course should be completed M.L.S. degree. The transferred courses must their program than would additional SLIS during the first semester of enrollment. This 3 have a grade of B or higher and must be taken courses. Ordinarily, permission for such credit undergraduate level course is a within the five-year time frame allowed for outside course work must be obtained before prerequisite for many courses in the SLIS completion of the degree. Only within enrolling in the course. The course must be curriculum, although it does not count toward recognized joint programs, as outlined in this completed with a grade of B or higher, must the credit hours required for a SLIS graduate bulletin, may other non-SLIS courses be not be applied to another degree (except in the degree. applied toward the M.L.S. degree. case of a recognized dual degree program), and must be taken within the five-year time M.L.S. Core Requirements Probation Policy In addition to the frame allowed for completion of the degree. common core course requirements noted In addition to the probationary admission above, students in the M.L.S. degree program M.I.S. Core Requirements In addition to the described earlier, a SLIS student admitted must, in consultation with the faculty adviser, common core course requirements noted unconditionally may be placed on probation at select and complete at least three of the above, students in the M.I.S. degree program any point in the program when failure to following five M.L.S. core courses: must, in consultation with the faculty advisor, achieve a minimum cumulative grade point L520 Bibliographic Access and Control select at least four of the following six M.I.S. average (GPA) of 3.0 occurs. The student will L522 Perspectives on Librarianship, core courses: be assigned a time frame in which the required Literacy, Communications, and Reading L542 Introduction to Human-Computer 3.0 GPA must be restored. Failure to achieve L524 Information Sources and Services Interaction 3.0 within the required time or to maintain the L526 Library Automation L543 Strategic Intelligence 3.0 GPA for the remainder of the degree L528 Collection Development and L544 Information Technology program will result in dismissal from the Management Standardization graduate program. In no case is a master’s L545 Systems Analysis and Design degree awarded for course work in which a M.L.S. Elective Courses In addition to the L546 User-Centered Database Design cumulative grade point average of less than 3.0 six courses (18 credit hours) taken from the L547 The Organizational Information has been achieved. Students will not be common and M.L.S.-specific cores, students Resource permitted to continue graduate course work must select a minimum of 18 credit hours of beyond the number of credit hours required elective courses to complete the 36 credit hours M.I.S. Elective Courses In addition to the 7 for the degree solely in an attempt to raise the required for the M.L.S. degree. These electives courses (21 credit hours) taken together from grade point average to the required level. must be chosen in consultation with the the common and M.I.S.-specific cores, students student’s faculty adviser in order to best must select a minimum of 21 credit hours of 12 13 elective courses to complete the 42 credit hours 1. MUS M539 Introduction to Music Dual Degree Program: Master of Library A minimum of 20 credit hours is required in required for the M.I.S. degree. These electives Bibliography (3 cr.). Science–Doctor of Jurisprudence The dual the Department of History for the Master of must be chosen in consultation with the 2. SLIS L596 Internship in Library and M.L.S.–J.D. program is intended for students Arts degree. For specific requirements, see the student’s faculty adviser in order to best Information Science (6 cr.). 3 cr. will who want to enter law librarianship, in which entry for the Department of History in the satisfy the student’s academic and professional normally be in music cataloging; the other the law degree is usually required for top Indiana University Graduate School Bulletin. goals. Elective courses for the M.I.S. degree 3 cr.may also be in music cataloging or else positions, and for students who want to enter Dual Master’s Degree Program: Master of may be chosen from the common core, the in music collection development, reference, the legal profession with the training and Library Science–Master of Arts in Music M.I.S. or M.L.S. core, or the large pool of other or technology.(P: M539, L520; P or ability to do their own legal bibliography and (Musicology or Music Theory) SLIS courses available to all master’s degree concurrent: L582) research. Students must be admitted to both The dual students. In no case may more than 6 credit 3. SLIS L631 Seminar in Music Librarianship the School of Library and Information Science degree program combines an M.L.S. with an hours to be applied toward the degree come (3 cr.). (P: M539 and consent of instructor) and the School of Law. Simultaneous M.A. in musicology or an M.A. or M.M. in from the workshop courses listed under the Music library administration, circulation, application to the two schools is strongly music theory. The program is intended to L595 course number. Care must be taken to collection development, facilities and recommended. The two degrees must be produce highly skilled and knowledgeable ensure that prerequisites have been satisfied design, performing ensemble collections, awarded simultaneously. practitioners in one of the most demanding before registering for any course. recording collections, reference, and specializations in librarianship. It combines the technology; music printing and publishing. Requirements for the Master of Library Science advantages of a first-rate library science Joint Programs degree are as follows: program, a top-ranked graduate music Master of Library Science or Master of Specialization in African Studies 1. Completion of SLIS courses from the program, and the librarians and professional Information Science–Chemical Information Librarianship Candidates in this joint common (9 credit hours minimum) and staff of one of the country’s largest music Specialist Candidates in this joint program program receive the M.L.S. degree and a M.L.S.-specific (9 credit hours minimum) libraries. Through enrollment in these receive the M.L.S. or M.I.S. degree and a certificate indicating the specialization. cores for a total of 18 credit hours. curricula, students may earn two master’s certificate indicating the specialization. They Applicants must be accepted to the M.L.S. Explanations of the common and degree- degrees by a combination of work in the must meet all common and M.L.S. or M.I.S. degree program before being considered for specific cores are found in the previous School of Library and Information Science and core requirements as selected in consultation the area studies specialization. To obtain the section on degree requirements. the School of Music amounting to with their SLIS advisers. In addition they are specialization, students must successfully 2. Other required SLIS courses (6 cr.): L530 approximately 60 credit hours (6 credits are required to include in their elective courses complete the following SLIS courses: and L628. shared between the two degrees). Applicants L624, L570, and additional SLIS courses to 1. From the common core, L503, L505, and 3. SLIS elective courses, of which L570 and are expected to hold at least a bachelor’s total at least 30 credit hours for M.L.S. L507. L608 are particularly appropriate, sufficient degree in music from an accredited four-year candidates or 36 credit hours for M.I.S. 2. From the M.L.S. core, L520, L524, and L528. to bring the total of SLIS credit hours collegiate institution. For this program, candidates. The remaining hours are directed 3. 9 credit hours of SLIS electives to be chosen completed to 30. students must apply for admission to both in consultation with the student’s faculty schools and meet the admission criteria by the Department of Chemistry and must A minimum of 80 credit hours is required from include C400, C401, and C402. Candidates for adviser and the African studies area established for each. The two degrees must be specialist in the IU library. the School of Law. For specific requirements awarded simultaneously. this specialization must have the equivalent of see the entry for the dual M.L.S.–J.D. program a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. A total of 18 credit hours from African studies in the School of Law Bulletin. Requirements for the Master of Library Science must include degree are as follows: Specialization in Music Librarianship Dual Master’s Degree Program: Master of 1. G732 Bibliography of Sub-Saharan Africa 1. Completion of SLIS courses from the Candidates are advised that a master’s degree Library Science–Master of Arts in History (3 cr.). common core (9 credit hours minimum) in music in addition to the M.L.S. is usually Interest in public history, genealogy, historic required for placement in the field of music 2. E431 and E432 History of Africa I-II and M.L.S.-specific core courses (9 credit (3-3 cr.). preservation, and archives and museum hours minimum) for a total of at least 18 librarianship (see the School of Music Bulletin administration creates a demand for and the description of the dual master’s 3. Y338 African politics (3 cr.). credit hours. 4. E310 Introduction to the Cultures of Africa professionals with expertise in both historical 2. MUS M539 Introduction to Music program below). This specialization program research and information management. The is available within the dual master’s degree (3 cr.). Bibliography (3 cr.) 5. At least 3 credit hours of electives to be dual M.L.S.–M.A. in history program requires 3. For students who have been accepted to the program, or within the M.L.S. program for completion of a minimum of 50 credit hours of students who already have a master’s degree chosen in consultation with the African Specialization in Music Librarianship, SLIS studies area specialist in the IU Library. graduate course work. Students must apply for L596 Internship in Library and Information in music or who do not desire a master’s admission to the master’s programs of both the degree in music from Indiana University. The Science (6 cr.), 3 cr. of which will normally The courses from African studies must be School of Library and Information Science and be in music cataloging; the other 3 cr. may program combines the instructional and graduate taken for credit. If the applicant’s the Department of History and meet the also be in music cataloging or else in music professional training resources of the School of background already contains course work that admission criteria established for each. The Library and Information Science and the Music collection development, reference, or is judged to cover any or all of the required two degrees must be awarded simultaneously. technology. (P: M539, L520; P or Library. Applicants are expected to hold at areas listed above, suitable electives chosen in least a bachelor’s degree in music from an Requirements for the Master of Library Science concurrent: L582) consultation with the African studies area 4. SLIS elective courses, of which L631 accredited four-year collegiate institution. specialist may be substituted. degree are as follows: Admission to the specialization is a joint 1. Completion of SLIS courses from the Seminar in Music Librarianship (3 cr.) (P: and decision by SLIS and the admissions Interested applicants may apply for Foreign common (9 credit hours minimum) and M539 consent of instructor) is committee for the specialization (IU music Language and Area Studies (FLAS) M.L.S.-specific (9 credit hours minimum) particularly recommended, sufficient to librarians). It is possible to be admitted to the fellowships through the African Studies cores for a total of 18 credit hours. bring the total of SLIS credit hours M.L.S. degree program or to the dual master’s Program, Woodburn Hall 221, Indiana Explanations of the common and degree- completed to 30. program and not be accepted to the music University, Bloomington, IN 47405-6000, (812) specific cores are found in the previous For the requirements for the Master of Arts in specialization. To obtain the specialization in 855-6825. Students in this specialization also section on degree requirements. music (musicology or music theory), see the music, the following courses must be may be eligible for internship opportunities in 2. Other required SLIS courses (9 cr.): L586 (or School of Music Bulletin. successfully completed within the M.L.S. the IU Library. History H547 [Archives]), L596, and L625. degree program. 3. SLIS elective courses to bring the total of SLIS credit hours completed to 30. 4. Elective courses in history (6 cr.). 14 15

Dual Master’s Degree Program: Master of A minimum of 20 credit hours is required in Explanations of the common and degree- (SLIS) and the Center for Latin American and Library Science–Master of Public Affairs journalism. For specific requirements contact specific cores are found in the previous Caribbean Studies jointly offer a three-year (Information Systems Management) The the School of Journalism. section on degree requirements. program that qualifies students for two dual M.L.S.–M.P.A. program addresses the 2. Other required SLIS courses (9 cr.): L596, master’s degrees. Study for these two degrees Dual Master’s Degree Program: Master of demand for information specialists with public L623, and L630. in the dual program (M.A./M.L.S.) can be Library Science–Master of Arts in History management and problem-solving skills. The 3. SLIS elective courses chosen from among completed in a total of 51 credit hours rather and Philosophy of Science program requires completion of a minimum of This program L526, L570, L583 to bring the total of SLIS than the 66 credit hours that would otherwise 63 credit hours of graduate course work. meets the growing demand for information credit hours completed to 30. be required to take the two degrees separately. Students must apply for admission to the professionals with a scientific academic 4. Elective courses in art history (6 cr.). In the dual degree specific courses contribute master’s programs of both the School of specialty and prepares students for a variety of to both degrees. The two degrees must be Library and Information Science and the positions in library, research, and archival At least 31 credit hours in the School of Fine awarded simultaneously. School of Public and Environmental Affairs settings. The program consists of a total of Arts are required. Course work must include (SPEA) and meet the admission criteria approximately 51 credit hours for both A500, A575, A595, and no fewer than two Requirements for the Master of Library Science established for each. The two degrees must be degrees. Students must apply for admission to seminars in two areas. Also required are four degree are as follows: awarded simultaneously. the master’s programs of both the School of lecture courses at the 400 and 500 levels, at 1. Completion of three SLIS courses from the Library and Information Science and the least two of which must be in Western art. common core (9 credit hours minimum) Requirements for the Master of Library Science Department of History and Philosophy of including L507 and L509, and four courses Dual Master’s Degree Program: Master of degree are as follows: Science and meet the admission criteria from the M.L.S.-specific core: L520, L524, Library Science–Master of Arts in 1. Completion of SLIS courses from the established for each. The two degrees must be L526, and L528, for a total of 21 credit Comparative Literature common core (9 credit hours minimum) awarded simultaneously. This program hours. Explanations of the common and and the M.L.S.-specific core (9 credit hours prepares candidates for positions in academic, degree-specific cores are found in the minimum) for a total of 18 credit hours. Requirements for the Master of Library Science research, and other libraries with a humanities previous section on degree requirements. Explanations of the common and degree- degree are as follows: orientation. The total program consists of at 2. Other required SLIS courses (9 cr.): L570, specific cores are found in the previous 1. Completion of SLIS courses from the least 50 graduate credit hours. Students must L596, and L620 to bring the total of SLIS section on degree requirements. common core (9 credit hours minimum) apply for admission to the master’s programs credit hours completed to 30. 2. SLIS elective courses (12 cr.) to bring the and the M.L.S.-specific core (9 credit hours of both the School of Library and Information total of SLIS credit hours completed to 30. minimum) for a total of 18 credit hours. Science and the Department of Comparative Students take 21 credit hours of advanced 3. Elective SPEA courses (6 cr.). Explanations of the common and degree- Literature and meet the admission criteria courses relating to Latin American and specific cores are found in the previous established for each. The two degrees must be Caribbean Studies (LTAM). The A minimum of 33 credit hours is required in section on degree requirements. awarded simultaneously. interdisciplinary seminar L501 (3 credits) SPEA. For specific requirements see the entry 2. Other required SLIS courses (9 cr.): L586, must be taken, together with 18 credit hours in for the dual M.L.S.–M.P.A. program in the L596, and L624. Requirements for the Master of Library Science other LTAM courses or those Latin American School of Public and Environmental Affairs 3. SLIS elective courses to bring the total of degree are as follows: and Caribbean Studies courses that are cross- Graduate Programs Bulletin. SLIS credit hours completed to 30. 1. Completion of SLIS courses from the listed with other departments. All other 4. Elective courses in history and philosophy common core (9 credit hours minimum) requirements for completion of the Latin Dual Master’s Degree Program: Master of of science (6 cr.). and the M.L.S.-specific core (9 credit hours American Studies M.A., including language Library Science–Master of Arts in Journalism minimum) for a total of 18 credit hours. proficiency and thesis or oral examination, The dual M.L.S.–M.A. in journalism program A minimum of 21 credit hours is required in Explanations of the common and degree- remain as listed in the University Graduate provides excellent preparation for professional the Department of History and Philosophy of specific cores are found in the previous School Bulletin. A further 6 credit hours taken library and information specialist positions in Science for the Master of Arts degree. For section on degree requirements. in SLIS will count towards both degrees: L620 news media; in corporate, academic, and specific requirements, see the Indiana 2. At least 12 credit hours of SLIS elective Topics in Information, Literature, and public libraries; and in data banks. The University Graduate School Bulletin. courses appropriate to the student’s Bibliography (topic: Latin American program consists of a total of approximately 51 background and interests. Dual Master’s Degree Program: Master of Bibliography) and L596 Internship in Library credit hours for both degrees. Students must 3. Elective courses in Comparative Literature Library Science–Master of Arts in Art History and Information Science (under the apply for admission to the master’s programs (6 cr.). This program is designed to prepare students supervision of the Latin American of both the School of Library and Information Bibliographer) Science and the School of Journalism and meet for professional library and information At least 20 graduate credit hours are required the admission criteria established for each. The specialist positions in fine arts and related in comparative literature course work. The Application for admission to the dual two degrees must be awarded simultaneously. libraries and information centers. The program Department of Comparative Literature M.A./M.L.S. degree program must be made to requires a minimum of 61 credit hours of requires certification in at least two foreign the LTAM program and the University Requirements for the Master of Library Science graduate course work including a languages, which does not count toward the 20 Graduate School for study toward the M.A. degree are as follows: comprehensive set of required courses and credit hour total required for the degree. and to SLIS for study of the M.L.S. Students 1. Completion of SLIS courses from the overlapping electives. Students must apply for Emphasis in the course work may be in must be accepted by all three units in order to common core (9 credit hours minimum) admission to the master’s programs of both the Western literatures, East-West relations be admitted to the program. and the M.L.S.-specific core (9 credit hours School of Library and Information Science and studies, Third World literatures, film studies, minimum) for a total of 18 credit hours. the School of Fine Arts and meet the admission or studies of the interrelations of the arts Dual Master’s Degree Program: Master of Explanations of the common and degree- criteria established for each. The two degrees (literature, music, the visual arts). For specific Library Science–Master of Arts in Russian specific cores are found in the previous must be awarded simultaneously. requirements see the entry for the Department and East European Studies Study for the section on degree requirements. of Comparative Literature in the Indiana two degrees can be combined for a total of 54 2. Other required SLIS courses (9 cr.): L570, Requirements for the Master of Library Science University Graduate School Bulletin. credit hours rather than the 66 credit hours L628, and at least one of the following: degree are as follows: required for the two degrees taken separately. Dual Master’s Degree Program: Master of L623, L624, or L625. 1. Completion of SLIS courses from the Library Science–Master of Arts in Latin 3. Library science elective courses to bring the common core (9 credit hours minimum) Requirements for the Master of Library Science American and Caribbean Studies total of SLIS credit hours completed to 30. and the M.L.S.-specific core (9 credit hours The degree are as follows: 4. Elective courses in the School of Journalism minimum) for a total of 18 credit hours. School of Library and Information Science (6 cr.). 16 17

1. Completion of three SLIS courses from the Individuals specializing in this area are by completing three courses from the The student should consult with the director common core (9 credit hours minimum) educators, information managers, and following: for library media education in order to and four courses from the M.L.S.-specific instructional designers. L503, L505, L507, L509 determine approval of these additional core, L520, L524, L526, and L528 for a total and one additional course from the school courses. of 21 credit hours. Explanations of the Indiana library/media/technology library services minor electives given above or common and degree-specific cores are certification transfers to most other states in any other course recommended by the Courses Open to Undergraduates found in the previous section on degree the United States. The student seeking student’s advisor from the M.L.S. curriculum. The following courses may, with permission, requirements. certification in a state other than Indiana be taken in the junior or senior year with a 2. SLIS electives (9 cr.), not including L596 should contact the certification office in that If the student elects to complete the minor view toward school library certification: L533, without and L620, which are considered part of the state to be certain of meeting any additional seeking the M.L.S., graduate course L551. Russian and East European studies degree, teacher training requirements. work from the School of Education and other graduate programs may be used to complete If such course work is taken as an chosen in consultation with the adviser, to A student may enter a program leading to bring the total of credit hours to 30. the minor provided they are approved by the undergraduate, the credit may count as an either the minor in school library services or director for library media education and the elective in the student’s undergraduate work. Students take 24 credit hours in Russian and the major in school media technology services local certification officer. In this case, courses Since all course work for either the minor in East European Studies, including R600, R601, after completion of a bachelor’s degree and such as R503 Application of Instructional library services or the major in media services after meeting the requirements for an Indiana four courses from area studies courses (one Media or R547 Computer Mediated Learning, must be taken as a graduate student, an teaching license each from the social science group, the at either the elementary or for example, would be acceptable. See Indiana undergraduate who has completed either or historical/geographical group, the secondary level. The bachelor’s degree should University School of Education Bulletin, both courses listed with a grade of B or better sociocultural group, and the literature group), include a minimum of 90 credit hours in liberal Instructional Systems Technology, for more may, on consultation with the graduate and two courses in SLIS (L596 and L620, both arts. At the secondary level, it is strongly options. adviser, substitute other graduate-level course taught by the Slavic bibliographer), and recommended that the student have a teaching work from SLIS in meeting the certification complete all other requirements for the major in social studies, language arts, science, If the student holds a life license for teaching and/or M.L.S. degree requirements. Russian and East European studies M.A., or computer technology. Entry requirements in Indiana, the minor in school library services including the language proficiency exam, M.A. for either certification program are the same as can be added only after it has been essay, and oral defense. for those entering any master’s-level SLIS professionalized by completion of 12 graduate Public Library program. A student must submit an credit hours beyond the minor. Of the total 36 Application for admission to the dual application for a certification program before credit hours, 12 must be in course work that Certification M.A./M.L.S. degree program must be made to completing 6 credits in SLIS. Questions emphasizes use or preparation of instructional the School of Library and Information Science concerning course work leading to a valid technology or application and management of Requirements for study toward the Master of Library Science teaching license in Indiana should be directed information technology related to public Students who desire certification for positions and to the Russian and East European Institute to the Certification Office, School of Education, school education. in Indiana public libraries must meet the for study toward the Master of Arts degree. IU Bloomington, (812) 856-8511. requirements established by the State Library Applicants must be accepted by both degree School Media Services Major Certification Board. For complete information, programs to enroll in the M.A./M.L.S. The program leading to certification as a (Emphasis in Information school library/media specialist at Indiana contact the Indiana Library Certification program. The student must select an M.A. Technology) and the M.L.S. Board, Indiana State Library, 140 N. Senate, essay committee of three faculty members University is approved by NCATE, and the SLIS M.L.S. program is ALA accredited. Completion of this 36 credit hour major for Indianapolis, IN 46204, 1-800-451-6028. representing both REEI and the School of school media information technology services Library and Information Science. Both degrees The board lists two kinds of education in School Library Services Minor to be added to the provisional teaching license determining the grade of certificate granted: will be awarded simultaneously. (24 credit hours) also meets the requirements for the M.L.S. degree. Completion of this major enables the Accredited library education is described as Completion of this minor allows the graduate completion of graduate study in an accredited School Library/Media to hold a building-level position as a student to hold a position as a professional library media specialist with additional program and validated by a diploma. This professional library media specialist. Course level relates to the higher grades of and Information work leading to the minor may be obtained responsibilities in information technology and audiovisual services. certification: Librarian I, II, or III. Librarian I Technology Certification through the SLIS graduate program as follows: and II levels have experience as well as Required course work: educational components. Librarian III is the The student must be admitted to the M.L.S. Required course work: L520, L524, L526, L528, L533, L553, L596 minimum grade for heads of libraries serving degree program in order to complete the L520, L524, L526, L528, L533, L553, L596 plus three courses from: populations of 10,001 to 25,000 and for course work leading to the minor or major in and one course from the following school L503, L505, L507, L509 comparable positions as determined by the school library or media certification as a library services minor electives: and two courses from: library certification board. The Master of library media specialist in Indiana. L551, L552, L554, L557, L570, L571, L578 or any 3 graduate credits from SLIS seminars, L551, L552, L554, L557, L570, L571, L578 Library Science degree from Indiana Emphasis in this area includes knowledge of a readings, workshops, or special topics courses The student who holds a life license for University meets this requirement. wide range of information sources and dealing with educational theory and teaching in Indiana must professionalize this Approved library education is defined as formats; selection and preparation of technology use or information resources for major before it can be added to the license. elementary instruction in library science taken instructional plans and materials; promotion children and young adults. Professionalization requires completion of 12 after completion of a prescribed period of and use of quality literature for children and additional graduate credit hours beyond the 36 undergraduate education. Approved library young adults; management of budgets, staff, Completion of 24 credit hours as outlined described above, and these additional credits education requires specified amounts of study and automated information services; above will allow the library services minor to should be in educational technology, in library science and relates to the lower collaborative teaching and cooperation with be added to the standard teaching license in instructional theory, selection and use of grades of Indiana library certificates. Two community information agencies; Indiana. The student may elect to stop instructional resources, and information levels of approved education are recognized: understanding of facilities planning; and graduate studies on completion of the 24 credit technology. Any of these additional 12 credit • Intermediate library education requires a instructional design for emerging hour minor or may complete the M.L.S. degree hours may come from graduate programs bachelor’s degree and at least 15 credit technological innovations in education. outside SLIS. hours of library science courses. This meets 18 19

the requirements for Librarian IV, which is A research project or thesis is not required, but synthesize and articulate methodological and available from the dean’s secretary at the the minimum grade for heads of libraries students may receive up to 6 hours of credit by theoretical issues relevant to the area of Bloomington office. Old courses must be serving populations of 5,001 to 10,000 and completing such work. An average grade of at specialization. revalidated individually. The revalidation for comparable positions as determined by least B (3.0) must be achieved in all graduate evidence for each course must be assessed by a the library certification board. The work taken. Application for degree must be Doctoral Dissertation SLIS faculty member who teaches the course following courses at Indiana University submitted early in the fall semester for The student must prepare and defend a being revalidated. The revalidating faculty meet the intermediate library education December graduation, and early in the spring dissertation in accordance with the regulations member must be personally convinced, based requirement for Librarian IV: semester for May, June, or August graduation. specified by SLIS. on present evidence, that the student has L507, L520, L524, L528, L533. current mastery of course concepts and • Minimum library education requires at The Ph.D. is awarded by the Indiana principles. Permission to use a part-time least two years of undergraduate education Doctor of Philosophy University Graduate School, which establishes member of the faculty for revalidation of minimum standards for graduate work and at least 9 credit hours of library science The SLIS Ph.D. is a research-oriented program course work must be secured from the director courses. This meets the Librarian V level, throughout the university. Candidates for the of the SLIS doctoral program. For instance, if a that focuses on advancing and disseminating degree of Doctor of Philosophy must fulfill the which is the minimum grade for heads of new knowledge, both basic and applied, about student earned a master’s degree 10 years ago, libraries serving populations of 5,000 or requirements stated in the Indiana University and sought to revalidate 30 credit hours of the design, use, management, and evaluation Graduate School Bulletin, including the fewer and for comparable positions as of information systems in all segments of courses, SLIS may approve only some of these required by the library certification board. residency requirement of ‘‘two consecutive credit hours, depending on current curriculum society. This interdisciplinary program brings semesters during one academic year on the The following courses at Indiana together relevant knowledge from information and faculty. University meet the minimum library Bloomington or Indianapolis campus.’’ All science, from the behavioral sciences, and from SLIS students who are candidates for the Advisory Committee education requirement for Librarian V: appropriate research methodologies. The Ph.D L507, L524, L528. doctoral degree should familiarize themselves Upon enrollment in the program, each program aims to train the next generation of with the requirements listed in this bulletin scholars in the field to conduct research of the doctoral student will be assigned a faculty Students wishing to meet Indiana public and with the requirements listed in the Indiana adviser. This assignment is made primarily on library certification requirements for Librarian highest quality. As a result, emphasis is placed University Graduate School Bulletin. throughout the program on research the basis of the student’s background and III must meet all requirements for and be interests as shown in the application. Before admitted to the M.L.S. degree program. experience, public discussion and SLIS Program of Studies dissemination of research findings, and the the end of one year in the program each Students wishing to take course work toward Doctoral programs are long and complex. student must have established an official with development of methodological skills and the Librarian IV and V certifications may, Students admitted to the SLIS program will be advisory committee and must submit a permission, theoretical knowledge. take the required courses without provided with a document outlining the committee-approved program of studies applying to the M.L.S. program. They must procedures of the Ph.D. program in Library outline to the director of the doctoral program. enroll as special students and have completed SLIS Minor and Information Science. They should consult The School of Library and Information science The official committee may, but need not, necessary prerequisites. Students wishing to this document for information concerning include the initial adviser. enter as special students must contact the SLIS offers an outside minor for Ph.D. students in important milestones in the program, director of admissions. other fields in accord with the regulations of including required forms and committee The official advisory committee consists of at the University Graduate School. Students meetings. least three faculty members. Two must be from usually take a minimum of 12 hours of SLIS and one from the outside minor area. The Specialist in Library and graduate credit in fulfilling this option. Of the 90 credit hours, 60 must be taken at the committee chair, who becomes the student’s Inquiries should be addressed to the director Bloomington or Indianapolis campus (or both) primary adviser, must be a full-time SLIS Information Science of the SLIS doctoral program. of Indiana University. All course work, except faculty member. At least two of the members dissertation credits, must be completed within The candidate for the Specialist degree must of the advisory committee, including the chair, seven years of matriculation. Students must complete 30 credit hours of graduate course must be members of the University Graduate select at least one minor subject area from work, of which at least 15 must be taken from Ph.D. Program School faculty. The advisory committee shall those areas of graduate study outside of SLIS the SLIS curriculum. The additional 15 credit approve the student’s program of study and Requirements that have been approved by the University hours may be taken in another school or counsel the student until the passing of the Graduate School. The determination of department of Indiana University. The Each of the following is required of all qualifying examination. minimum requirements and examination student’s entire program must be planned in students: procedures (if any) for the minor is entirely at consultation with the SLIS adviser to meet the Program of Studies Form the discretion of the minor department or student’s academic and professional goals. Course Credits A form for listing all courses to be included in program. Students must complete the degree Each doctoral student at Indiana University is a student’s program of studies is available requirements within a period of five years. required to complete at least 90 credit hours of Course Revalidation from the SLIS graduate secretary’s office. an advanced course of study. Up to 30 credit Program requirements fall into several A maximum of 6 graduate credit hours from hours earned in a master’s or specialist degree Course work used in the doctoral program component categories, as explained below. The another accredited university may, in certain program may be transferred to the doctoral must have been taken in the last seven years, student, with the advisory committee chair, limited circumstances and with the permission program, provided they meet time limit or it must be revalidated. Revalidation is the will select courses to be included in the of the dean, be applied to the Specialist degree. requirements and are relevant to the student’s process whereby a student demonstrates program of studies. An advisory committee Outside courses are warranted only when they doctoral area of concentration. current knowledge of course material that was meeting, during which all committee members are relevant to the student’s career objectives. previously taken. All course work offered review and approve the program of studies, is Ordinarily permission for such outside course Research Ability toward the doctoral degree that is over seven required. The program of studies must then be work must be obtained before enrolling in the Through the practicum (L702) and other years old at the time of passing the qualifying approved by the coordinator of the doctoral course. The course must be completed with a research experiences (e.g., L710), the student exam must be revalidated. Courses over 20 program. If a completed program of studies form is grade of B or higher, must not be applied to must demonstrate skill and judgment in the years old may not be used in the doctoral not submitted within one year of matriculation, another degree, and must be taken within the practice of research. In the qualifying exam, program. enrollment will be discontinued. five-year time frame allowed for completion of the student must demonstrate capability to the degree. Forms for revalidation and information regarding methods of revalidation are 20 21

representative must approve the selection of presented in the doctoral handbook given to student will present a portfolio representing a Doctoral Program courses in the minor area and will determine all doctoral students on entry to the program. self-evaluation of progress to date. The Components the total number of credit hours required for portfolio will be compiled according to the minor. Students have completed minor Admission to Candidacy guidelines provided in the doctoral student Within the 90 credit hour total, the student work and have selected graduate faculty Upon passing the qualifying exam, the student handbook. It will be reviewed by the Advisory must take 13 credit hours of required SLIS representatives from outside SLIS in such is nominated to candidacy. Admission to Committee and the faculty members of the research seminars, 9 credit hours of research departments as computer science, psychology, candidacy will not be awarded, however, until Doctoral Steering Committee. skills and statistics (which may be from education, cognitive science, instructional all required course work has been completed another IU department), at least 24 credit systems technology, business, public affairs, and/or validated. Thus, there may be a delay Research Committee hours that represent a major area within and higher education administration. The between passing the oral qualifying After admission to candidacy, the student librarianship or information science, and 12 to doctoral student at SLIS, with the guidance of examination and admission to candidacy. The must assemble a research committee. The 15 credit hours that represent an outside minor the advisory committee, is encouraged to date of passing the oral qualifying examination is a doctoral research committee has the area. The dissertation normally equals 15 shape a doctoral program that meets his or her critical date. The seven years for course currency responsibility to guide the candidate through hours of deferred thesis credit. specific career and research goals. are counted back from this date. The seven years for the dissertation process and to conduct the Major (24 cr.) completion of the dissertation are counted forward final oral defense. The research committee Courses Outside the Major from this date. must have at least four members. Three must A major area of concentration consisting of a 21 credit hours of other graduate course work, be from SLIS and one from the student’s minimum of 24 credit hours of course work in generally taken in areas outside the student’s minor. At least one member of the committee the selected field of specialization is required. major area of concentration, may be offered as The Dissertation must have particular expertise in the research There is substantial flexibility in the area of partial fulfillment of the required 75 non- methods to be used in the study. The specialization. Courses from related areas of dissertation credit hours. Maintaining Active Student Status committee chair must be a full-time faculty study may be included in the major After admission to candidacy, doctoral member in the student’s major area. Usually component if their relevance to the major can Dissertation Credit students must register for at least 1 credit hour the committee chair is also the dissertation be demonstrated and if committee approval Normally, 15 credit hours of deferred each semester (excluding summer sessions) in director; however, it is acceptable for another can be secured. dissertation credit (L799) may be offered in order to maintain active student status. This is committee member with particular expertise in normally done by enrolling in one or more SLIS Required Seminars (13 cr.) order to complete the required 90 credit hours. the area of the study to direct the dissertation. Students should not enroll in L799 until all or hours of dissertation credit (L799). After 90 A form for the appointment of the doctoral Candidates for the degree of Doctor of most of the 75 non-dissertation credit hours total credit hours of program course work research committee is available from the SLIS Philosophy are required to take a sequence of have been completed. have been completed, students may enroll in graduate secretary. 700-level research seminars as part of their G901 Advanced Research in order to maintain program: the L701 seminar, an introduction to Qualifying Examination active status. G901 is a 6 credit hour course All members of Ph.D. research committees must be members of the University Graduate School faculty. doctoral research in library and information The general aim of the qualifying examination with a flat fee of $100. This is an inexpensive Two must be full members. The committee chair science; L702 (I/II), two semesters of research is to provide students with an opportunity to way for students to maintain a ‘‘full load.’’ and the dissertation director must be full members practicum with individual faculty members, research an area in depth, to write a lengthy Enrollment in G901 is limited to six semesters, of the University Graduate School faculty. where the student learns to do research by paper summarizing their findings, and to and it is not offered in summer sessions. If an participating in the ongoing research program defend publicly their work to their peers and Registration in absentia for L799 and G901 is associate or affiliate member of the University of faculty members; L710, which provides to the full faculty. The work is more than just a available for doctoral students who reside Graduate School faculty has special expertise students with an opportunity (prior to work literature review that will form the basis of more than 25 miles from the Bloomington in the area of the student’s research, the on the dissertation) to perform research in several chapters in a dissertation. Students are campus. research committee chair and the associate their area of interest under the sponsorship expected to explore, explicitly and in depth, dean may petition the University Graduate and supervision of a faculty member; and the theoretical and methodological issues Seven-Year Rule School to allow the associate or affiliate faculty L790, designed to give students an pertinent to their research area. The research The dissertation must be completed within member to direct the student’s dissertation. opportunity to develop a research proposal for must focus on an area of relevance to the field, seven years of passing the oral qualifying In some instances it is possible to include a their dissertation. established in consultation with the advisory examination. At this time doctoral candidacy is committee member who is not an Indiana terminated for students who have not Research Skills Core (9 cr.) committee, and the final product must University faculty member, such as a faculty establish this relevance to its audience. The completed the dissertation. Such students may member at another university, on a doctoral A 9 credit hour research and statistics core output of the work will be a written review (c. apply for readmission. This process is initiated committee. To receive approval for such a component is required. This includes 10,000 words). Students then present their with a letter to the director of the doctoral substitution, two conditions must be met. The completion of a basic graduate-level statistics work to the full faculty and doctoral students. program requesting readmission. Students substitute member must have special expertise course taken outside the school and either an applying for readmission are subject to current not available among IU graduate faculty, intermediate graduate statistics course or a Students should expect to complete at least admission criteria. If readmitted, such students two semesters of work in order to prepare and either in the major area of study or in the graduate course in research design. The must retake the qualifying examination and research methodology, and the substitute research skills component may then be pass the qualifying exam. Since the qualifying fulfill other conditions imposed by the school exam carries no course credit, a student will be member must have a strong history of completed by passing, with a grade of B or in order to establish currency. If the qualifying research. higher, a third graduate-level course in expected to register for L600 readings courses examination is passed and the other conditions statistics or a course in research design. SLIS with relevant faculty in preparation for the are met, these students are readmitted to Selecting a Committee qualifying paper. The public presentation will course L709 may be taken as a graduate course candidacy. They have only three years from The procedure for selecting a research in research design as part of this requirement. involve a 90-minute session divided this date to complete a dissertation. approximately equally between student committee chair and research committee Minor (12-15 cr.) presentation and open discussion. This time is Portfolio members varies from student to student. flexible, and faculty questioning may extend Ideally, each student has, by this time in the A minimum of 12 credit hours of course work, After completion of the first calendar year in program, formed a mentoring relationship related to the student’s research interests and the estimated 90 minutes as necessary. Full the program, and on an annual basis until details of the qualifying exam procedure are with one or more faculty members. Often the taken outside the School of Library and successful defense of a dissertation proposal, a advisory committee chair is the student’s Information Science, is required. The minor 22 23 mentor and becomes the research committee satisfactory initial draft is (in the judgment of Dissertation Manuscript understanding of the grading standards of the chair. In such a case the student and chair the committee chair) ready to be submitted to A Guide to the Preparation of Theses and School of Library and Information Science. typically have had discussions about tentative the research committee. Students will not Dissertations is available from the SLIS • A (4.0) Outstanding achievement. Student dissertation topics before admission to receive a letter grade in L790 until such time as graduate secretary or the University Graduate performance demonstrates full candidacy and before the selection of other they have successfully defended their School. This document contains detailed command of the course materials research committee members. proposals. If the process extends beyond the instructions for the preparation and and evinces a high level of semester in which a student registers for L790, originality and/or creativity that It is not required that the advisory committee submission of the dissertation manuscript. an Incomplete will be assigned. far surpasses course expectations. chair be asked to chair the research committee, Two copies of the dissertation are requested by • A- (3.7) Excellent achievement. Student nor that the advisory committee chair agree to The student must provide copies of the the University Graduate School, one bound performance demonstrates chair the research committee. Ultimately, the proposal to all members of the Research and one unbound. The candidate should also thorough knowledge of the course choice of a research chair involves a Committee for comment and guidance and provide the School of Library and Information materials and exceeds course combination of personal compatibility and convene meetings of an advisory nature as Science Library with one bound copy and the expectations by completing all compatibility of research interests of the needed. The Research Committee chairperson, research committee chairperson with one requirements in a superior student and the chair. The student and the acting on written reactions to the proposal by bound copy. As a courtesy, although it is not a manner. chair typically confer regarding the selection of other committee members, will determine requirement, doctoral candidates often present • B+ (3.3) Very good work. Student other research committee members. when the proposal is sufficiently developed to each of their research committee members performance demonstrates above- schedule the meeting for its defense. With the with a bound copy of the dissertation as well. average comprehension of the A one- to two-page dissertation prospectus help of the dean’s secretary, the student is course materials and exceeds must be submitted with the Nomination of responsible for scheduling the proposal Final Oral Defense course expectations on all tasks as Research Committee Form. This prospectus defense. The student must prepare an abstract After the dissertation manuscript is completed, defined in the course syllabus. should include a clear statement of the of the proposal and provide copies to all an oral public examination is scheduled, • B (3.0) Good work. Student performance questions to be addressed in the study, an regular full-time SLIS faculty, together with an allowing the candidate to defend the meets designated course outline of the design of the study, the research announcement of the defense date, and place dissertation research. This defense may not be expectations, demonstrates methods to be used, and a discussion of the one copy of the full proposal on reserve in the scheduled less than six months after the date understanding of the course contribution of the study to theory. The SLIS library. This should be done at least two on which the research committee was materials, and performs at an prospectus should play an important role in weeks before the scheduled defense date. approved. Committee members must receive a the selection of the research committee. This clean copy of the dissertation manuscript at acceptable level. document allows prospective members to The student must defend the proposal in least four weeks before the defense. The • B- (2.7) Marginal work. Student decide whether to participate in the study. It is public, i.e., before the research committee and candidate should prepare a thesis summary performance demonstrates unwise for faculty members to make a other faculty and students desiring to attend. for approval by the committee chair. The incomplete understanding of commitment to serve on a student’s research Assuming a successful defense, the dissertation defense announcement, which course materials. committee before a written prospectus is chairperson obtains signatures of committee includes the summary, must be submitted to • C+ (2.3) Unsatisfactory work and presented for examination. members on the Nomination of Ph.D. Research the University Graduate School office at least C (2.0) inadequate understanding of Committee Form. The SLIS graduate secretary course materials. Dissertation Proposal one month before the date of the final defense. obtains the signature of the director of the This is a public defense, and anyone who so • C- (1.7) Unacceptable work; course work The student is required to develop and submit doctoral program and then forwards this form desires may attend. D+ (1.3) performed at this level will not a dissertation proposal, a document that is not to the Dean of the University Graduate School. D (1.0) count toward the M.L.S. or M.I.S. only considerably more detailed than the The University Graduate School awards Ph.D. D- (0.7) degree; for the course to count prospectus but contains sufficient detail to Note that the dissertation proposal is one of degrees on the last day of each month. Final toward the degree, the student allow a reader to ascertain the student’s the most important landmarks in the course of copies of the dissertation must be submitted 30 must repeat the course with a research intentions unambiguously. The study for the Ph.D. It is a statement of days before degree conferral. Since there are passing grade. proposal normally should contain the intended dissertation research, and its often editing changes after the final defense, • F (0.0) Failing. Student may continue in following elements: a statement of purpose, successful public defense is an indication that degree conferral is typically more than 30 days program only with permission of rationale, literature review and theoretical the proposed work is likely to meet the after the defense. the dean. framework, research questions, proposed standards of the field. The defended proposal Grades are assigned by individual instructors procedures, sources of data and methods of is also a form of contract between the student based on a combination of student data collection, methods of data analysis, and a and the advisory committee as to the work to General Information performance measures developed for each statement about the significance of the study. be submitted in the dissertation. To this end, the proposal defense is more critical in nature Grade Computation course. Student achievement of course The required course, L790 Seminar in Library than the dissertation defense. Instructors in the School of Library and objectives is usually assessed through the use and Information Science Research, should be Information Science use a grading system that of multiple performance measures. For taken in the semester immediately following Use of Human Subjects includes plus and minus grades as well as example, a combination of several of the completion of the qualifying examination. This If the proposed research involves the use of straight letters. Numerical equivalents for following assessment methods is common: course provides a structure within which to human subjects, a research review form for the these grades are as follows: A+ or A = 4.0; A- = examinations, class participation, written develop the proposal. If a number of students use of human subjects must be completed. This 3.7; B+ = 3.3; B = 3.0; B- = 2.7; C+ = 2.3; C = 2.0; assignments and exercises, research papers, or are enrolled in L790, it will meet regularly as a form must be approved by the Campus C- = 1.7; D+ = 1.3; D = 1.0; D- = 0.7; F = 0.0. term projects. Other methods, depending on seminar. If only one person is enrolled, the Committee for the Protection of Human course content and objectives, may include in- course will be conducted as an independent Subjects before the data collection begins. Letter grades have been defined as follows by class small group exercises, oral presentations, study. In either case, the student will have an Forms may be obtained from the dean’s student and faculty members of the field-based projects and field experiences, role opportunity to work on the proposal under the secretary, but any questions about this Curriculum Steering Committee and have playing, or case study presentations. guidance of the course instructor with regular procedure should be addressed directly to the been approved by the faculty as an aid in No course on which a student receives a grade input from the research committee chair. In a Research Risk Compliance Officer, Sponsored evaluation of academic performance and to of lower than C (2.0) will be counted toward paced manner, the student will compose and Research Services, Bryan Hall 010, assist students by giving them an revise each section of the proposal until a Bloomington, (812) 855-3067. 24 25 requirements for any SLIS degree. Any Placement below. A student must be admitted to a Fellowship Awards The school also offers required course on which a grade lower than C The range of placement services available from graduate degree program in order to be some one-time cash fellowship awards to new is received must be repeated; an elective the School of Library and Information Science eligible for financial aid from SLIS. Students and continuing students in the SLIS degree course on which an unacceptable grade is includes instruction on resume and cover letter with financial assistance must make adequate programs. Some of these are the following: earned need not be repeated, but it may be progress toward their degree each semester writing and on interviewing strategies, both on The Margaret I. Rufsvold Graduate Fellowship of repeated or another course must be taken in its an individual basis and through group and meet all other requirements of the award, place. Repeating an unacceptable course or or financial support may be discontinued. $2,000 is named for the first dean of the school presentations. In addition, all position and is awarded annually to a person whose taking another in its place does not remove the announcements received are posted daily, and Stipends and salaries earned by graduate credit points for that course from grade point students are taxable. It is our understanding record gives evidence of superior potential for a monthly placement bulletin is available. This success as a library/information professional. average. All grades achieved in SLIS courses bulletin is available upon request and free of that fellowships and fee scholarships are not will be counted in the SLIS and IU GPA. Since taxable under current regulations; however, it The recipient must be a full-time SLIS student charge to SLIS alumni during the year on the Bloomington campus carrying at least 9 a minimum GPA of 3.0 (B) is required for following their graduation. All others may is the responsibility of each recipient to graduation, any grade below B must be confirm the tax status of any award with the hours of credit each semester as a candidate supply stamped, self-addressed business for the master’s or Specialist degree. All balanced by another sufficiently above B to envelopes, one for each month, to have the Internal Revenue Service. keep the GPA at the 3.0 level. applicants for SLIS financial aid are considered bulletin mailed to them. An online version of Fee Scholarships Each year the School of for this award. Grade of Incomplete the placement bulletin is available at: Library and Information Science awards a http://www-slis.lib.indiana.edu/Profession/ The Clayton A. Shepherd Scholarship of $2,000 The grade of Incomplete (I) may be used on number of scholarships for the academic year JobPlacementBulletin/jobpage.htm to students on the Bloomington campus. These was established in memory of Associate the final grade report at the discretion of the Professor Shepherd, who had been a member instructor. The grade I indicates that the SLIS does not maintain placement files on awards cover 30 credit hours of tuition fees, excluding the university’s dedicated fees, of the SLIS faculty for 13 years at the time of student’s work in a course is satisfactory thus individual alumni; however, the School of his death. This award is made annually to a far but has not been completed as of the end of Education makes the services of its Placement which are currently about $22 per credit hour. The majority of these scholarships are SLIS master’s or Ph.D. student whose major the semester. Office available to SLIS graduates wishing to emphasis is in information science and establish such a file. awarded to students matriculating in the fall The grade of Incomplete may be given only semester, and the 30 credit hours of fee technology. Recipients must be scheduled for when the completed portion of a student’s SLIS Alumni Association scholarship must be used within one calendar full-time study at IU SLIS in the fall semester work in a course is of passing quality, and may year of the award. These awards are linked to following the spring when the award is made. The School of Library and Information Science Applicants must submit an essay of 500-750 be awarded only upon showing hardship to Alumni Association has as its purpose the the guaranteed hourly positions described the student that would make it unjust to hold below. Acceptance of the fee scholarship words detailing their interest in information furthering of educational, professional, and science and technology and their goals after the student to the original time limit for course social interests of the school and its alumni. implies acceptance of an hourly position. No completion. It is the responsibility of the SLIS master’s or Specialist student may receive completion of the SLIS degree program. The The association publishes a semiannual essay, plus name, address, and telephone student who has incurred a grade of newsletter to keep alumni informed about a fee scholarship for more than one calendar Incomplete in any course to fulfill the year. Deadlines for applications are indicated number, should be sent to: Director of developments within the school and news of Admissions, SLIS, 10th and Jordan, Indiana requirements of that course within a maximum each other. In addition the SLIS Alumni in earlier section on application procedures. of one calendar year from the date on which University, Bloomington, IN 47405-1801. Association sponsors two events annually, one Guaranteed Hourly Positions the I grade is recorded. After one calendar The School of Deadline for submission is March 1. in May and one in December, to honor SLIS Library and Information Science guarantees year, a grade of Incomplete automatically graduates. The Alumni Association, in The Yuan T’ung-Li Memorial Fellowship of $1,000 changes to a grade of F on the student’s record. hourly positions in the school or the University cooperation with the school, also sponsors a Libraries as part of the Bloomington fee is a memorial to the late Yuan T’ung-Li, director of the National Library of Beijing, who Deferred Grade (R) minimum of two receptions per year at annual scholarships described above. These positions conferences of state and national professional offer valuable experience to students who was associated with the Library of Congress Certain doctoral-level courses, such as L799 organizations. show high potential as librarians and other for much of his later life. The award is made and G901, in which candidates enroll while information professionals. annually to a Chinese student who is a citizen working on their dissertations, are expected to Summer Sessions of the P.R.C. or the R.O.C. (Taiwan) and who take longer than one year. In these instances, The School of Library and Information Science Graduate Assistantships Several graduate demonstrates high potential for success as a an R, indicating that the grade has been offers one of the largest selections of summer assistantships are available to SLIS master’s library/information professional. Applications deferred, will be assigned until such time as classes proportional to school enrollment. The degree candidates through the University for the Yuan fellowship must include an essay the dissertation is completed. two summer sessions are a six-week session Cyclotron Facility, Department of Chemistry, of approximately 500 words expressing the and, on some occasions, other university applicant’s philosophy of library/information Computer Accounts from early May to mid-June and an eight-week session from mid-June to mid-August. It is departments. These assistantships, which service and professional goals following All SLIS students are eligible for and required to possible for some students to complete a SLIS include fee scholarships and stipends, require graduation. The essay must be accompanied obtain computer accounts from University Master’s degree by attending only summer the appropriate academic background for part- by proof of at least one year’s previous Information Technology Services immediately sessions over the period of five years allowed time service in the specific department or employment in a library or information facility upon matriculation. These accounts include an for degree completion. Students are cautioned, agency. and the applicant’s name, address, and electronic mail component, which is utilized telephone number. Applicants must be however, that not all courses are or will be Financial Aid on the IUPUI Campus by SLIS for both official and nonofficial currently enrolled full-time in SLIS or available during summer sessions. For Graduate assistantships that include tuition communication. Student job openings, additional information consult the Summer scheduled for full-time enrollment for a scholarship and financial aid opportunities, remission and employment in the University summer term or the fall semester following the Sessions Bulletin and the schedules of SLIS Library are available to SLIS students deadlines for submission of official paperwork, courses that are available from the school. spring of the award. Application materials and announcements of social functions are just attending classes on the Indianapolis (IUPUI) should be sent to: Director of Admissions, a few examples of the information Financial Aid campus. For information about eligibility SLIS, 10th and Jordan, Indiana University, requirements and application procedures, disseminated via electronic communication. Any applicant who fills out the application for Bloomington, IN 47405-1801. Deadline for Students will be held responsible for receiving please contact the SLIS Office, University submission is March 1. SLIS financial aid, which is part of the SLIS Library 1110C, IUPUI. and responding as appropriate to all official master’s and Specialist applications, will be electronic mail. considered for all financial aid awards listed 26 27

The InULA Scholarship of $1,000 is awarded as they become available, but SLIS does not annually by the Indiana University Librarians accept applications for such employment. All Courses Association to a full or part-time student hiring is done directly by the specific libraries. currently enrolled in a School of Library and Students may also contact specific libraries or Note: The abbreviation P refers to the course include the study of human communication, Information Science master’s degree program. information facilities in the area concerning prerequisite or prerequisites. Undergraduate the information environment, uses and users Students must complete an application form employment potential. courses are marked by the sign *. of information, information systems in (obtainable from SLIS) and a statement of Undergraduate students will be admitted only libraries, and the information professions. Student loans and other financial aid professional philosophy and goals and arrange to the 100-level courses. Undergraduates L503 User Needs and Behavior in Theory and opportunities are available to graduate to have at least one letter of reference sent wishing to enroll in higher-level SLIS courses Practice (3 cr.) students in Bloomington through the Office of This course introduces students directly to the current InULA president as must receive written permission from the to the concepts of information analysis from a listed on the application each year. InULA Student Financial Assistance, Franklin Hall school prior to registering for the course. 208, IU, Bloomington, IN 47405-2801, (812) 855- human perspective, focusing particularly on reserves the right to publish the winning L140* Information Resources and Student 3278. Information on funding sources is the theoretical models and practical techniques statement in its newsletter. Deadline for Research (1 cr.) Concepts of information, that underpin the field. Sociological and submission is March 1. available to students at IUPUI through the Office of Student Financial Aid, Cavanaugh research processes, and techniques and skills psychological perspectives will be examined in The Evelyn Ray Sickels Award of $250 is made Hall 103, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5145, (317) for using information resources are examined. order to develop an approach to the each spring to an M.L.S. candidate who 274-4162. Resources explained include traditional print assessment of users’ information needs. demonstrates exceptional potential in the field sources as well as those based on new L505 Organization and Representation of International student aid of youth librarianship. SLIS students from the School of technologies, such as computer databases and Knowledge and Information (3 cr.) Introduces graduating the December preceding or the Library and Information Science is very multimedia applications. Similar to L161 but students to various disciplines’ approaches to May, June, or August of the award year are limited. Aid available from the school for has been designed for IUPUI students and the understanding, organization, eligible to apply. The award requires beginning students is normally restricted to programs incorporating technology and off- representation (summarizing), and use of submission of an application form, a 300-500 U.S. citizens and permanent residents. In some campus learning. knowledge and information. This survey looks word statement of the individual’s philosophy cases a continuing international student will L150* Information Sources in for commonality among the approaches taken and goals in youth librarianship, and two receive financial assistance following the first Telecommunications (1 cr.) Designed in information science, cognitive psychology, letters of reference. Deadline for submission is semester in SLIS, but in no case does the specifically for undergraduates who are semiotics, and artificial intelligence, among March 15. available aid approach the entire amount premajors or majors in telecommunications others. The goal is to identify criteria for needed for the support of an international and who are required to complete a research evaluation and improvement of ways to Other awards include the Caroline Smerk student attending a graduate degree program project or term paper. Training in use of organize and represent information for future Memorial Award, given annually by Caroline’s at Indiana University. International students computerized database systems, as well as retrieval. Information systems currently used parents in aid of a current SLIS student are advised not to count on any financial selection and use of advanced reference in libraries and information centers will be studying toward a career in Fine Arts assistance from the school, but to seek sources. Graded on a Pass/Fail basis. studied as examples. Emphasis in the course is Librarianship, and the Dennis Grumling sponsorship and support from other sources. L155* Information Resources in Journalism on concepts and ideas, with appropriate Memorial Award, presented annually to a SLIS The university will not issue visa (1 cr.) Designed specifically for attention to terminology and technology. student who has excelled in cataloging and documentation until the international student undergraduates who are premajors or majors L507 The Management of Information demonstrates promise of success in the submits evidence of complete financial in journalism. Introduction to information Environments (3 cr.) The course is designed as profession. support. Information on other financial aid for sources and services of the Main Library, a fundamental course in understanding international students may be obtained from Indiana Library Federation Scholarships Journalism Library, and other appropriate organizations as a foundation for managing are the Office of International Services, Franklin awarded annually by the ILF to students who library collections. Training in use of information in them and for performing Hall 306, Bloomington, IN 47405-2801, (812) computerized database systems, as well as general management activities. The course are Indiana residents, have economic need, 855-9086. and are studying or wish to study for a career selection and use of other advanced reference offers introductory coverage of four main in librarianship. Awards are made each spring, SLIS Financial Support for Doctoral sources. areas: models of organization, group and and recipients must agree to work in an Students L161* Library Skills and Resources (1 cr.) individual behavior, operations and facilities Indiana library for one year following degree Designed for undergraduates. Techniques and planning, and budgeting and fiscal planning, receipt. Details for application are publicized There are a variety of sources of financial aid skills for researching term papers, speeches, especially as these apply in information each spring by SLIS and the federation. for doctoral students, including fellowships and other library projects. management environments. awarded by the university to outstanding Association for Indiana Media Educators L401* Computer-Based Information Tools L509 Introduction to Research and Statistics graduate students, and government-funded (3 cr.) P: L401, completion of 9 credit hours in Scholarships are offered to students planning awards under the GAANN program. SLIS also (3 cr.) Graded S/F. This skills-based course a career in Indiana school libraries and media introduces basic applications that will be used SLIS, or consent of instructor. The research provides support to Ph.D. students in the form process, including concepts, design, conduct, centers. Application details are published by of graduate assistantships and other kinds of throughout the student’s course work and the association and SLIS when they become beyond. Students’ experiences in this course and evaluation. Principles and characteristics direct aid. Graduate assistantships are usually of approaches and methodologies relevant to available. awarded to students who have been involved should be seen as a basis for further skill development and learning throughout their research in the field. Examples of data sources Other financial aid opportunities are in ongoing research projects. Newly admitted and introduction to methods of statistical students are often awarded other forms of careers. The course covers computing publicized by the school as they become platforms, access tools, and management tools. description and analysis; ethical issues. available. This information is available financial aid. International students are required by the University Graduate School to Demonstration of skills will be by a mastery L515 History of the Book (3 cr.) Survey of the primarily on the SLIS-L Listserv via electronic test or an assignment in each unit of the functions and history of writing and the mail. demonstrate financial independence before being admitted to the program. course. L401 does not count toward graduate various methods and styles of bookmaking Student library employment is frequently degree requirements. from earliest times through the nineteenth available for SLIS students who wish to obtain L501 Information and Society (3 cr.) century. part-time positions in the University Libraries Introduces issues related to information in L516 Introduction to Archives and Records and in other library and information facilities society, as well as concepts, methods, and Management (3 cr.) Introduces basic theories, in the area. SLIS publicizes these opportunities techniques of information science. Major units methods, and significant problems in archives 28 29 and records management. The course also L533 Library Materials for Children and image, and geographic data. Students will practice and evaluate methods in design and discusses how archivists are responding to the Young Adults (3 cr.) Evaluation and use of design and implement databases using several presentation of various approaches to challenge of managing and preserving books, magazines, recordings, films, radio and commercial database management systems. bibliographic instruction including library electronic records. television broadcasts, and other sources of L547 The Organizational Information skills and orientation, user education, L517 History of Libraries (3 cr.) Development information and recreation. Resource (3 cr.) This course introduces some of discipline-specific instruction, and information of libraries and information service from L534 Principles and Techniques of the models and methodologies that have been literacy. Students will be expected to research earliest times to the present, with emphasis on Storytelling (3 cr.) P or concurrent: L533 or proposed to help managers exploit the and debate information literacy theory, and to the library in relation to social, economic, consent of instructor. The history, philosophy, information resource. Topics include historical make several extensive oral presentations, cultural, and political trends. and value of storytelling. Guidance in overview, structure and content of the which will be subject to critical review. L520 Bibliographic Access and Control (3 cr.) techniques of this oral art form and its organizational information resource, and L559 Introduction to Health Sciences P: L401. Historical development and principles adaptation to special needs and programs. resource modeling. Librarianship (3 cr.) P or concurrent: L520, essential to the understanding of the L535 Library Services for Children and L550 Issues in the Management of Library L524. Health sciences library administration, conceptual foundations of providing Young Adults (3 cr.) P or concurrent: L533 or Services and Programs P: L507. A special materials organization, and information bibliographic access and control of materials consent of instructor. This course emphasizes topics course providing in-depth study of services. Emphasis on National Library of and information. Discussion and examples in the history, philosophy, and description of management and service issues relevant to a Medicine classification, subject headings, the application of AACR2r will be presented to children and young adult library services. It specific type of library or information printed indexes, and online databases. illustrate and reflect current practice. takes a holistic look at the role of the youth environment. May utilize a seminar format. L561 The Information Industry (1-3 cr.) Emphasis is on monographic publications. services librarian from planning and Specific topics announced in Schedule of Classes. This course examines various aspects of the L522 Perspectives on Librarianship, Literacy, evaluation to specific services and programs, May be repeated for credit when topic varies. information industry: products, producers, Communications, and Reading (3 cr.) and examines the current and future outlook L551 Information Inquiry for School suppliers, trends, and market opportunities. Overview of the library as a social institution, for this type of librarianship. Emphasis is on Teachers (3 cr.) This course is intended to be Focus varies with the topic; for example, historically, currently, and for the future, the public library, but cooperation with an opportunity for teachers and future structural market characteristics, or technical within social, economic, political, and cultural appropriate services and programs such as teachers (including school library media developments and their impact. May be contexts. Focuses on the institution, the school media centers is also discussed. specialists as teachers) to practice methods in repeated for credit when topic varies. collections and formats, and the users to create L542 Introduction to Human-Computer critically thinking about information/media, L562 Information Accounting (3 cr.) P: L507. an understanding of the role and importance Interaction (3 cr.) Examines the human factors and to use that process as a means to teach This course evaluates a variety of approaches of libraries. associated with information technology and their students to be critical reviewers and to assessing the costs and benefits of L524 Information Sources and Services (3 cr.) seeks to provide students with knowledge of communicators as well. information investments. The aim is to provide P or concurrent: L401. This course introduces the variables likely to influence the perceived L552 Audio and Video Information students with a range of information students to the basic information sources and usability, and hence the acceptability, of any Programming (3 cr.) P or concurrent: L528 or accounting techniques and impact assessment services among different types of libraries and information technology. In so doing it will L546 or consent of instructor. Students will methodologies to help them better understand information centers, including academic, enable students to progress further towards become acquainted with community radio and the true costs and value of information. public, special, and school media. specialist work in the important field of television services, especially public access L563 Information Policies, Economics, and L526 Library Automation (3 cr.) P or human-computer interaction. communications through public and academic the Law (1-3 cr.) Data creation, publication, concurrent: L401. Principles for the design, L543 Strategic Intelligence (3 cr.) Introduces libraries, as well as public information dissemination, and use occur in a complex selection, implementation and management of different concepts of strategic intelligence, and networks such as BITNET and the Internet, social context. Legal and regulatory structures automated systems of all types in libraries, different contexts in which these are applied; and cable or distance education television continue to evolve to control these processes. including systems for technical services the idea of intelligence is not restricted to services. Students will have hands-on This course explores international and U.S. processing, reference and user services, and national security, or corporate competition: it experience in the production of oral history principles, laws, and regulations affecting the management. Focus is on present and future can apply at the level of the individual citizen, and community video programming. Students information industry. Focus varies with the applications of technology in libraries, their company, community, or country. will also become aware of how multimedia topic; for example, copyright of electronic technical features, and their implications for L544 Information Technology and other audiovisual materials are selected, information sources or transborder data flow. library services and management. When Standardization (3 cr.) P: L401. This course organized, and maintained in library May be repeated for credit when topic varies. possible, some practical experience with a presents students with an opportunity to learn collections. L570 Online Information Retrieval (3 cr.) particular application will be provided. about specific information technology L553 The School Media Specialist (3 cr.) P: L401 or consent of instructor. Principles, L528 Collection Development and standards of interest to information P or concurrent: L524 and L533, or consent of methods, and techniques of advanced online Management (3 cr.) Theoretical and pragmatic professionals. Additionally, students will learn instructor. Establishes the professional information retrieval (IR). Characteristics of aspects of the selection, evaluation, and about various standardization activities and teaching and administrative role of the and search strategies for the use of management of collections in all types of their impact in organizational settings. certified school library media specialist in K-12 bibliographic, referral, citation, fact, numeric, libraries. Acquisitions, publishers and L545 Systems Analysis and Design (3 cr.) settings. Situations are examined that pertain and full text databases and search systems. publishing, policy making, and intellectual Using a behavioral approach to information specifically to policy development, budgeting, Considers standards, use of communications freedom and censorship are also covered. systems, this course covers information collection development, instructional design, software, front-ends and micro-based IR L530 Legal Bibliography and Law Library systems designed to conform to the needs of support staff training, facility design, district systems, and creation of in-house databases. Administration (3 cr.) P: L524 or consent of users. supervision, and information networking L571 Information Networking (3 cr.) P: L401. instructor. An introduction to basic legal L546 User-Centered Database Design (3 cr.) within the modern school corporation. This course focuses on technologies for materials and law librarianship. Primary and P: L401 or consent of instructor. Concerned Students make site visits to leading school connecting computers for communication/ secondary resources; indexes; digests and with a comprehensive view of the processes information centers, conferences, and media telecommunication. A discussion of the citators; specialized research methods; current involved in developing formal access to fairs. differences between digital and analog developments in automated legal research. information from a user-centered point of L554 Bibliographic Instruction (3 cr.) P or transmission is used to introduce the concept History of law libraries in the U.S., their view. Considers various database models such concurrent: L524 or L542, or consent of of computer networks. Network components organization and administration. The role of as flat file, hierarchical, relational, and instructor. This is a hands-on course in which and designs are compared in terms of law librarians in law schools and law firms. hypertext in terms of text, sound, numeric, the student will have the opportunity to performance, reliability, and cost. 30 31

Communication protocols and network services, including acquisition, cataloging, of specific topics in librarianship and L623 Information in the Humanities (3 cr.) connectivity are presented in the light of serials, circulation. Special emphasis on information science. May be repeated for P: L524, L528, or consent of instructor. current standards. Network management is research and development in library systems credit when topic varies. Introduction to information sources and discussed in relation to technical and economic and technology. Includes file organization, L600 Readings in Library and Information services in the disciplines of performing arts, strengths and security needs. documentation system development, analysis, Science (cr. arr.) P: consent of instructor. music, fine arts, literature, language, L574 Communication in Electronic and evaluation for manual, mechanical, and Readings and study in any area of library or philosophy, and religion. In addition, the Environments (3 cr.) Examines conceptual automated applications. information science having an extensive course addresses information needs and perspectives on information in organizations, L585 Descriptive Bibliography (3 cr.) literature. A student may enroll for this course behavior patterns of users seeking these types covering topics such as types of information, P: consent of instructor. The development of twice in the same semester under different of information. information activities, organizational culture the practice of printing, typefounding, and instructors. Normally L600 is completed under L624 Information in Science and Technology and information technology, communication papermaking; the principles and practice of the direction of a full-time faculty member. (3 cr.) P or concurrent: L401, L524. General as information flow, obtaining and using the bibliographical description of printed Readings done under L600 shall not duplicate materials, reference books, periodicals, information from the environment, managing books, with emphasis on the period to 1880. the content of any course now in the government documents, nonbook media in the information in specialized extended L586 Administration of Manuscripts and curriculum of the School of Library and individual literature of individual disciplines; communities, and ethical and quality issues. Personal Papers Collections (3 cr.) P: consent Information Science. patents and report literature. Examination of Focus varies by type of community studied. of instructor. Introduction to the nature, L605 Seminar in Education for Librarianship production, publication, distribution, and May be repeated for credit when the topic functions, and methodology of the and Information Science (3 cr.) P: consent of forms of scientific and technical literature. varies. administration of archives and manuscript instructor. An overview of the history, L625 Information in the Social Sciences (3 cr.) L575 Computer Programming for Text collections. The course will consist of lectures, purpose, and methods in education for P: L401, L524, or consent of instructor. Study of Management (3 cr.) P: L401 or consent of discussions, field trips, and special projects. librarianship and information science. the core information tools in the fields of instructor. Introduces basic skills for L587 Rare Book Libraries and Librarianship American and international systems will be anthropology, economics, history, political programming and manipulation of data (3 cr.) P: consent of instructor. Introduction to covered as well as standard accreditation science, psychology, and sociology. Includes structures for bibliographic and full text the development, organization, and operation requirements for higher education programs. key bibliographic databases and electronic information systems. of rare book libraries and special collections. Students will be evaluated on their network tools. Evaluation of research dealing L576 Digital Libraries (3 cr.) P: L401 or Includes an overview of the fundamentals of demonstration of lecture delivery, group with information channels in these fields. equivalent and consent of instructor. This book collecting, both private and institutional, discussion management, analysis of a mentor L628 Government Information: Collection, course introduces digital libraries—networked the antiquarian book trade and auction teacher, and presentation of instruction Organization, Dissemination (3 cr.) P: L401, information servers that provide access to market, and the profession and practice of rare through distance education. L524. Survey of government information multimedia data for local and remote users. book librarianship. L608 Seminar in Intellectual Freedom (3 cr.) dissemination in all formats and at all levels of Primary emphasis is on developing digital L592 Bibliometric Techniques and Problems P: 9 hrs. of SLIS graduate credit or permission government. Consideration of government libraries, based on understanding tools for (3 cr.) Focuses on bibliometric techniques and of instructor. Beginning with a history of and information policy. Primary emphasis given to presentation and manipulation of multimedia the research problems that they are used to alternative philosophical justifications for U.S. government information but with some as well as analysis of user needs. address; introduces the principal bibliometric censorship, the student is introduced to consideration given to state and local L577 Design of Information Systems (3 cr.) techniques used in library and information constraints, obligations, and problems relating publications in the United States, and those of P: L575. Students identify, design, and science research with particular emphasis on to intellectual freedom. international organizations. implement a significant information design their role in the study of scholarly L610 Seminar in International Librarianship L629 Business Information Sources (3 cr.) project, such as acquisitions, organization, or communication. (3 cr.) Comparisons of philosophy and practice P: L401, L524, or consent of instructor. search and retrieval for an online public access L594 Research in Library and Information of librarianship in selected countries; Introduction to basic business materials. system. Science (cr. arr.) P: consent of instructor. international library organizations; current Includes resources, research methods, current L578 User Interface Design for Information Individual research in a problem in the field of world trends. developments, automated systems, and Systems (3 cr.) P: L401 or consent of instructor. library and information science. L620 Topics in Information, Literature, and databases. This course focuses on established principles L595 Workshop for Librarians and Bibliography (3 cr.) The purpose of this course L630 Seminar in Art Librarianship (3 cr.) and methods to design effective interfaces for Information Professionals (cr. arr.) P: consent is to provide the opportunity for greater in- P: A575 (School of Fine Arts) or consent of information systems, emphasizing document of instructor. Group study of specific problems depth study of the information and literature instructor. Academic art library retrieval, filtering, visualization, correlation, in the library and information field. Generally sources related to area studies, specific administration, collection development, analysis, and research. includes a hands-on element. No more than 6 academic disciplines, and/or specific library reference services, technical services L582 Subject Access Systems (3 cr.) P: L505. hours of L595 credit may be used toward the patron audiences. Examples include Slavic operations, facilities, and slide and Principles, development, characteristics, and requirements for any SLIS degree. materials, Latin American bibliography, and photograph/picture collections will be internal structures of subject access systems. L596 Internship in Library and Information international legal bibliography. Depending on emphasized. Evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of Science (2-6 cr.) P: permission of faculty the potential market, the demand for L631 Seminar in Music Librarianship (3 cr.) the major classification schemes and current adviser. Graded S/F. Supervised internship in knowledge concerning the specific P: M539 (School of Music). Academic music subject heading systems. an information management environment. information, literature, and material, and the library administration, collection development, L583 Indexing Theory and Practice (3 cr.) Professionals in library and information expertise of available faculty, there are a wide technical series operations, record and P: L505, or consent of instructor. Theoretical management mentor each graduate student. range of possible topics. performing ensemble collections, and concepts of subject indexing and thesaurus Forty on-site hours must be completed for each L622 Library Materials for Adults (3 cr.) reference services will be emphasized. construction for information retrieval. credit earned. Students should plan through P: L524, L528. A review and discussion of L633 Seminar on Issues and Trends in Examines alternative approaches to traditional their adviser the course work leading to an trends reflected in subject content and use of Children’s or Young Adult Literature (3 cr.) indexing techniques. Evaluation and use of internship. Normally, at least 21 credits must book and nonbook materials for patrons in P: L533 or consent of instructor. An advanced appropriate computer software. be completed before enrollment. secondary school and public libraries in seminar, addresses such topics as: images of L584 Technical Services (3 cr.) P: L507 or L597 Topics in Library and Information relation to changing young adult and adult minority groups, societal problems (e.g., consent of instructor. Principles of Science (cr. arr.) P: consent of instructor. Study needs and the role of libraries in meeting such poverty and family patterns), or informational needs. organization and function of library technical needs and materials including access and 32 33 availability of print, nonprint, and computer The following courses at the 700 level are open only resources. May be repeated for credit when to doctoral students. Faculty topic varies. L701 Introduction to Doctoral Research L641 Information Storage and Retrieval in Library and Information Science (3 cr.) Bradley, Johanna, Ph.D. (University of Illinois, Murphy, Marcy, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh, Theory (3 cr.) P: L401, L503, L505, L509. P: consent of instructor. Role and function of Urbana-Champaign, 1991), Assistant Professor 1977), Associate Professor Emerita Traditional experimental design, cognitive, research in society; history of library and Callison, Daniel J., Ed.D. (Indiana University, Rufsvold, Margaret I., A.M. (Peabody College of and naturalistic approaches to studying the information science scholarship; current need 1982), Associate Professor Vanderbilt University, 1933), H.D.L. (Mundelein fundamental concepts of information retrieval. for research in LIS; critical analysis of present Crews, Kenneth D., Ph.D. (University of College, 1969), Professor Emerita Anomalous states of knowledge, relevance, state of knowledge in the field; relevant California, Los Angeles, 1990), J.D. (Washington Serebnick, Judith, Ph.D. (Rutgers University, information need, search behavior and research methodologies; barriers to individual University, 1980), Associate Professor 1978), Associate Professor Emerita process. Study of IR subsystems; system initiatives in research. Cronin, Blaise, Ph.D. (The Queen’s University of Whitbeck, George W., Ph.D. (Rutgers interface; query formulation, matching, and L702 Research Practicum (2 cr.) P: L701. Belfast, 1983), D. Litt. (Hon.) (Queen Margaret University, 1970), Associate Professor Emeritus relevance feedback algorithms, subject Encourages doctoral students to begin the College, Edinburgh, 1997), Professor and Dean White, Herbert S., M.S.L.S. (Syracuse University, indexing, and evaluation. process of learning to conduct independent Dillon, Andrew P., Ph.D. (Loughborough 1950), Distinguished Professor Emeritus L642 Information Usage and the Cognitive research as early as possible in their studies. University of Technology, 1991), Associate Artifact (3 cr.) P: L542. Examines the process of The purpose is to expose the student to the Professor Senior Fellow information usage with particular emphasis on experience of research in LIS under the (Rutgers Davis, Charles H., Ph.D. (Indiana University, reading and writing, to determine the best role guidance of a SLIS faculty member. Two Fitzgibbons, Shirley A., Ph.D. University, 1976), Associate Professor 1969) for information technology in supporting such consecutive semesters of L702 are required of human activities with cognitive artifacts. all doctoral students. Harter, Stephen P., Ph.D. (University of Chicago, Visiting Scholars 1974), Professor L643 Evaluation of Information Systems L710 Research in Library and Information Darányi, Sándor, Ph.D. (Eötvös Loránd (3 cr.) P: L401. Theoretical and practical Science (3 cr.) P: L701 or consent of instructor Hert, Carol A., Ph.D. (Syracuse University, University, Budapest, 1994) 1995), Assistant Professor exploration of the issues surrounding to waive L701. Approval of the student’s Davenport, Elisabeth R., Ph.D. (University of contemporary information systems. A specific advisory committee is required for the L710 Jacob, Elin K., Ph.D. (University of North Strathclyde, Glasgow, 1994) focus will be on evaluating information project. Students apply methods of research Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1994), Assistant Professor systems from the user perspective. This under faculty supervision. May be taken twice Kling, Rob, Ph.D. (Stanford University, 1971), Assistant Dean, Director of evaluation approach will cut across for credit. D.Sc. (Hon.) (Free University of Brussels, 1987), Admissions disciplinary frameworks: behavioral, L763 Research Problems and Methods in Professor (Indiana University, cognitive, and social sciences. The approach Krutulis, Mary E., M.L.S. Information Science (3 cr.) P: consent of Mostafa, Javed, Ph.D. (University of Texas- 1984) will also touch on multiple research methods: instructor. Study of current problems and Austin, 1994), Assistant Professor online surveys, sense-making, critical incident, methodological approaches in information Manager of Information Systems and network analysis. Nisonger, Thomas E., Ph.D. (Columbia science research. University, 1976), Associate Professor Patel, Gautam, B.S., B.A. (Indiana University, L651 Evaluation of Library Sources and L764 Seminar in Information Science (3 cr.) 1989) Services (3 cr.) P: L528. Examines the applied Priss, Uta, Ph.D. (Darmstadt University, 1997), P: consent of instructor. Intensive study of Assistant Professor evaluation of library resources and services, selected topics. Development Director Pungitore, Verna L., Ph.D. (University of including collections, document delivery, L765 Research in Information Systems (2-4 Tony Sloan, M.P.A. (University of South Pittsburgh, 1983), Associate Professor technical services, reference services, and cr.) P: consent of instructor. Independent Alabama, 1996) overall library performance. Emphasis is research or study. Rosenbaum, Howard, Ph.D. (Syracuse placed on the available methods and University, 1996), Assistant Professor School of Library and Information L790 Seminar in Doctoral Research (3 cr.) methodological issues. The checklist method, Shaw, Debora, Ph.D. (Indiana University, 1983), Science Librarian availability studies, document delivery tests, P. consent of instructor. Doctoral students Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Indiana University, use studies, applied bibliometrics, and the use develop their plans for theses subject to Bobay, Julianne, M.L.S. (Duke University, 1981) of automation are covered. criticism by other doctoral students and Smith, Martha M., Ph.D. faculty. 1980; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, L697 Advanced Topics in Information 1996), Assistant Professor Associate Faculty Systems (1-4 cr.) This course is a special topics L799 Ph.D. Thesis (cr. arr.) (Syracuse University, Brahmi, Frances A., M.L.S. (Indiana University, seminar, focusing on a new development or Snyder, Herbert W., Ph.D. 1995), Assistant Professor 1981), Librarian and Director of Information application of technology related to Services, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indianapolis, information systems. The intention is to Taylor, Joyce G., Ph.D. (Indiana University, 1993), Lecturer and Associate Professor (part-time), School of provide a rapid response to current trends, Library and Information Science with topic and content changing with each Travica, Bob, Ph.D. (Syracuse University, 1995), (Indiana University, offering. Examples of topics which might be Assistant Professor Brancolini, Kristine, M.L.S. 1974), Librarian and Head, Media and Reserve offered include: hypermedia, artificial Umiker-Sebeok, Jean, Ph.D. (Indiana University, Services Department, IU Bloomington, and intelligence, expert systems, parallel 1976), Associate Professor Associate Professor (part-time), School of Library processing, and virtual reality, or some special and Information Science aspect of one of these technology trends, and Emeritus Faculty (Indiana University, their implications for information system Abrera, Josefa B., Ph.D. (Indiana University, Buckley, Keith A., M.L.S. development and use. May be repeated for 1970), Associate Professor Emerita 1980), Associate Librarian, Law Library, IU credit when topic varies. Bloomington, and Assistant Professor (part-time), Armstrong, Marian L., A.M. (Indiana School of Library and Information Science University, 1958), Assistant Professor Emerita Croucher, Murlin L., M.L.S. (University of North Kaser, David, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1971), Associate Librarian 1956), Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Slavic Studies Area Specialist, IU 34 35

Bloomington, and Assistant Professor (part-time), Professor (part-time), School of Library and Library and Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School of Computing Services, IU Bloomington, and Adjunct School of Library and Information Science Information Science Library and Information Science Lecturer (part-time), School of Library and Fariss, Linda K., J.D. (Indiana University, 1988), Orme, William, M.L.S. (Indiana University, Davila, Roberta, M.S. (Indiana University, 1984), Information Science Associate Director and Associate Librarian, Law 1981), Associate Librarian, IUPUI University Programmer/Analyst, Bloomington Hospital, Prince, J. Dale, M.A. (University of Alabama, Library, IU Bloomington, Lecturer in Law (part- Library, and Assistant Professor (part-time), Indiana, and Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School 1995), Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School of time), School of Law, and Assistant Professor (part- School of Library and Information Science of Library and Information Science Library and Information Science time), School of Library and Information Science Park, Taemin Kim, Ph.D. (Indiana University, Day, Dorothy A., Specialist in L.I.S. (Indiana Ross, Shirley L., M.L.S. (Indiana University, Fenske, David Edward, Ph.D. (University of 1982), Associate Librarian, Serials and Cataloging, University, 1993), Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), 1990), Director of Library Media Services, John Wisconsin, 1973), Librarian and Head, Music IU Bloomington, and Assistant Professor (part- School of Library and Information Science Glenn School Corp., Walkerton, Indiana, and Library, IU Bloomington, Associate Professor time), School of Library and Information Science Felton, J. Troy, B.S. (Taylor University, 1990), Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School of Library and (part-time), School of Music, and Associate Popp, Mary Pagliero, M.L.S. (Indiana Programmer, USA Group, Indianapolis, Indiana, Information Science Professor (part-time), School of Library and University, 1973), Associate Librarian, IU and Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School of Library Schlesinger, Louise D., M.P.A. (Indiana Information Science Bloomington, and Assistant Professor (part-time), and Information Science University, 1984), President, InfoRangers, Fischler, Barbara B., M.A. (Indiana University, School of Library and Information Science Ford, Charlotte, M.L.S. (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, and Adjunct Lecturer (part- 1964), Director and Librarian, University Library, Richwine, Margaret, M.L.S. (Indiana University, 1986), Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School of time), School of Library and Information Science IUPUI (retired), and Associate Professor (part- 1986), Associate Librarian, Medical Sciences Library and Information Science Skutnik, Samantha, M.L.S. (Indiana University, time), School of Library and Information Science Library, IUPUI, and Assistant Professor (part- Griffitts, Joan K., M.L.S. (Indiana University, 1992), Reference Librarian, Butler University, Fore, Julie A., M.L.I.S. (University of Wisconsin, time), School of Library and Information Science 1981), Freelance Indexer, Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana, and Adjunct Lecturer (part- 1989), Assistant Automation Librarian, IU School Silver, Joel Barry, M.L.S. (Indiana University, and Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School of Library time), School of Library and Information Science of Medicine, Indianapolis, and Lecturer (part-time), 1986), Associate Librarian and Curator of Books, and Information Science Szynaka, Edward M., M.L.S. (Syracuse School of Library and Information Science Lilly Library, IU Bloomington, and Assistant Heffron, Jennifer K., M.L.S. (Indiana University, University, 1973), Director, Indianapolis-Marion Goodwin, Vania M., M.L.S. (Indiana University, Professor (part-time), School of Library and 1994), Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School of County Public Library, Indiana, and Adjunct 1981), Associate Librarian, Cataloging Team, Information Science Library and Information Science Lecturer (part-time), School of Library and IUPUI, and Assistant Professor (part-time), School Information Science Taylor, Saundra B., M.L.S. (University of Holman, Stephanie A., M.L.S. (Indiana of Library and Information Science California, Los Angeles, 1968), Associate Librarian University, 1989), Children’s Librarian, Ellettsville Tilley, Carol L., M.L.S. (Indiana University, Hoyt, Dolores, Ph.D. (Indiana University, 1994), and Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library, IU Branch, Monroe County Public Library, Indiana, 1993), Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School of Associate Librarian and Associate Executive Bloomington, and Assistant Professor (part-time), and Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School of Library Library and Information Science Director, University Library, IUPUI, and School of Library and Information Science and Information Science Tucker, Dennis, M.L.S. (University of Missouri, Assistant Professor (part-time), School of Library Walters, Carolyn, M.L.S. (Indiana University, Hommel, Joyce, M.L.S. (Indiana University, 1983), Library Specialist, Indiana Cooperative and Information Science 1985), Associate Librarian and Head, 1994), Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School of Library Services Authority, Indianapolis, Indiana, Irvine, Betty Jo, Ph.D. (Indiana University, Undergraduate Library Services, IU Bloomington, Library and Information Science and Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School of Library 1982), Librarian and Head, Fine Arts Library, IU and Assistant Professor (part-time), School of and Information Science Hoskin, Adele, M.B.A. (Indiana University, Bloomington, and Associate Professor (part-time), Library and Information Science 1976), Librarian, Dow-Elanco, Indianapolis, Van Duyne, Catherine, M.S.E. (Indiana School of Library and Information Science Adjunct Faculty Indiana, and Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School University, South Bend, 1985), Music Teacher, Irwin, Marilyn M., Ph.D. (Indiana University, of Library and Information Science John Glenn School Corp., Walkerton, Indiana, and 1991), Associate Librarian and Director of Allen, Patricia, M.L.S. (Indiana University, Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School of Library and Howley, Kevin, Ph.D. (Indiana University, Information Dissemination, Institute for the Study 1997), Vice President and Secretary, Allen Information Science Information Consultants, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1997), Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School of of Developmental Disabilities, IU Bloomington, Library and Information Science Young, Philip H., Ph.D. (University of and Assistant Professor (part-time), School of and Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School of Library Pennsylvania, 1980), Director, Krannert Memorial Lazar, Cindy A., M.B.A. (Indiana Wesleyan Library and Information Science and Information Science Library, University of Indianapolis, and Adjunct Bevilacqua, Ann, M.A. (Middlebury College, University, 1995) Systems Analyst, Thompson Kratz, Anne, M.L.S. (Indiana University, 1993), Consumer Electronics, Indianapolis, Indiana, and Lecturer (part-time), School of Library and Director, Sponsored Program Development, 1984), President and Software Developer, Upper Information Science Broadway Bodega Software, and Adjunct Lecturer Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School of Library and IUPUI, and Lecturer (part-time), School of Library Information Science and Information Science (part-time), School of Library and Information Science Lodgsdon, Robert L., M.L.S. (Indiana Malcomb, J. Louise, M.L.S. (Indiana University, Carrigan, Jackie L., M.L.S. (Indiana University, University, 1976), Associate Director for Public 1983), Librarian and Head, Government Services, Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, Publications Department, IU Bloomington, and 1984), Media Specialist, Plainfield Schools, Indiana, and Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School Indiana, and Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School Associate Professor (part-time), School of Library of Library and Information Science and Information Science of Library and Information Science McKim, Geoffrey, M.L.S. (Indiana University, Mason, Marianne, M.L.S. (Indiana University, Cheng, Yung-Rang, M.L.S. (Indiana University, 1993), Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School of 1993), Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School of 1988), Associate Librarian, Law Library, IU Library and Information Science Bloomington, and Assistant Professor (part-time), Library and Information Science School of Library and Information Science Cohen, Barbara E., M.A. (Columbia University, Mills, Linda, M.L.S. (Indiana University, 1977), Library Media Specialist, Greensburg Community Okada, Emily, M.A. (University of Wisconsin, 1977), Freelance Indexer and Editor, and Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School of Library and Schools, Indiana, and Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), 1976), Associate Librarian, Undergraduate Library School of Library and Information Science Services, IU Bloomington, and Assistant Professor Information Science (part-time), School of Library and Information Collins, Catherine Davis, M.S. (Simmons Nichols, James T., M.L.S. (University of Denver, Science College, 1979), Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), 1982), Adjunct Lecturer (part-time), School of Library and Information Science Olley, Lorraine, M.A. (University of Chicago, School of Library and Information Science 1982), Associate Librarian and Head, Preservation Crosby, Ellen, Ph.D. (Indiana University, 1991), Old, L. John, M.S. (University of Arkansas, Little Department, IU Bloomington, and Assistant Head of Cataloging, Indiana Historical Society Rock, 1992), Database Specialist, University 36 37

responsibilities is published in a handbook, provided in rule 2(c), such person person shall then be reclassified to the Indiana University Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and must be a resident for 12 months in status of nonresident; provided, that Conduct, which contains a description of due order to qualify as a resident student no such reclassification shall be When you become a student at Indiana process hearings in the event of disciplinary for fee purposes. effective until the beginning of a University, you join an academic community action. (b) Physical presence in Indiana for the semester next following such removal. internationally known for the excellence and predominant purpose of attending a (e) A person once properly classified as a Degree Requirements diversity of its programs. With 878 degree Students are college, university, or other institution resident student shall be deemed to programs, the university attracts students from responsible for understanding all requirements of higher education, shall not be remain a resident student so long as all 50 states and around the world. The full- for graduation and for completing them by the counted in determining the 12-month remaining continuously enrolled in time faculty numbers almost 4,000 and time they expect to graduate. Information period of residence; nor shall absence the university until such person’s includes members of many academic societies about a specific school or division can be from Indiana for such purpose degree shall have been earned, subject such as the American Academy of Arts and found in the front section of the bulletin for deprive a person of resident student to the provisions of subparagraph (d) Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, that school. status. above. and the National Academy of Sciences. Requests for deviation from department, 2. A person shall be classified as a ‘‘resident 3. The foreign citizenship of a person shall student’’ if he or she has continuously not be a factor in determining resident Indiana University was founded at program, or school requirements may be resided in Indiana for at least 12 student status if such person has legal Bloomington in 1820 and is one of the oldest granted only by written approval from the consecutive months immediately capacity to remain permanently in the and largest institutions of higher education in respective chairperson, director, or dean (or preceding the first scheduled day of United States. the Midwest. It serves more than 91,000 their respective administrative representative). classes of the semester or other session in 4. A person classified as a nonresident students on eight campuses. The residential Disposition at each level is final. which the individual registers in the student may show that he or she is exempt campus at Bloomington and the urban center university, subject to the exception in (c)1 from paying the nonresident fee by clear at Indianapolis form the core of the university. below. and convincing evidence that he or she has Campuses in Gary, Fort Wayne, Kokomo, New Rules Determining (a) The residence of an unemancipated been a resident (see rule 1 above) of Albany, Richmond, and South Bend join Resident and person under 21 years of age follows Indiana for the 12 months prior to the first Bloomington and Indianapolis in bringing an that of the parents or of a legal scheduled day of classes of the semester in education of high quality within reach of all of Nonresident Student guardian who has actual custody of which his or her fee status is to be Indiana’s citizens. Status for Indiana such person or administers the changed. Such a student will be allowed to University Fee Purposes property of such person. In the case of present his or her evidence only after the General Policies divorce or separation, if either parent expiration of 12 months from the residence These rules establish the policy under which meets the residence requirements, qualifying date, i.e., the date upon which Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Policy students shall be classified as residents or such person will be considered a the student commenced the 12-month of Indiana University nonresidents upon all campuses of Indiana resident.1 period for residence. The following factors Indiana University pledges itself to continue University for university fee purposes. (b) If such person comes from another will be considered relevant in evaluating a its commitment to the achievement of equal Nonresident students shall pay a nonresident state or country for the predominant requested change in a student’s opportunity within the university and fee in addition to fees paid by a resident purpose of attending the university, nonresident status and in evaluating throughout American society as a whole. In student. he or she shall not be admitted to whether his or her physical presence in this regard, Indiana University will recruit, resident student status upon the basis Indiana is for the predominant purpose of hire, promote, educate, and provide services to These rules shall take effect February 1, 1974; of the residence of a guardian in fact, attending a college, university, or other persons based upon their individual provided, that no person properly classified as except upon appeal to the Standing institution of higher education. The qualifications. Indiana University prohibits a resident student before February 1, 1974, Committee on Residence in each case.2 existence of one or more of these factors discrimination based on arbitrary shall be adversely affected by these rules, if he (c) Such person may be classified as a will not require a finding of resident consideration of such characteristics as age, or she attended the university before that date resident student without meeting the student status, nor shall the nonexistence color, disability, ethnicity, gender, marital and while he or she remains continuously 12-month residence requirement of one or more require a finding of status, national origin, race, religion, sexual enrolled in the university. within Indiana if his or her presence nonresident student status. All factors will orientation, or veteran status. 1. ‘‘Residence’’ as the term, or any of its in Indiana results from the be considered in combination, and variations (e.g., ‘‘resided’’), as used in the establishment by his or her parents of ordinarily resident student status will not Indiana University shall take affirmative context of these rules, means the place their residence within the state and if result from the doing of acts which are action, positive and extraordinary, to where an individual has his or her he or she proves that the move was required or routinely done by sojourners overcome the discriminatory effects of permanent home, at which he or she predominantly for reasons other than in the state or which are merely auxiliary traditional policies and procedures with remains when not called elsewhere for to enable such person to become to the fulfillment of educational purposes. regard to the disabled, minorities, women, and labor, studies, or other special or entitled to the status of ‘‘resident (a) The residence of a student’s parents or Vietnam-era veterans. temporary purposes, and to which he or student.’’2 guardians. she returns in seasons of repose. It is the An Affirmative Action office on each campus (d) When it shall appear that the parents (b) The situs of the source of the student’s place a person has voluntarily fixed as a monitors the university’s policies and assists of a person properly classified as a income. permanent habitation for himself or individuals who have questions or problems ‘‘resident student’’ under (c) To whom a student pays his or her herself with an intent to remain in such related to discrimination. subparagraph (c) above have removed taxes, including property taxes. place for an indefinite period. A person at their residence from Indiana, such (d) The state in which a student’s Confidentiality of Student Records any one time has but one residence, and a automobile is registered. In accordance with federal statutes and residence cannot be lost until another is (e) The state issuing the student’s driver’s regulations, student records are confidential gained. ————————— license. and available for disclosure to persons other (a) A person entering the state from 1Invocation of the provision in Rule 2(a) that applies (f) Where the student is registered to than the student only under stated conditions. another state or country does not at to cases of divorce or separation requires appropriate vote. that time acquire residence for the legal documentation. Student Rights and Responsibilities 2 (g) The marriage of the student to a purpose of these rules, but except as Rules 2(b) and 2(c) apply only to unemancipated resident of Indiana. A statement of students’ rights and persons under 21 years of age. 38 39

(h) Ownership of property in Indiana and shall review the appeal in a fair manner outside of Indiana. and shall afford to the student a personal Fees (i) The residence claimed by the student hearing upon written request. A student The instructional and incidental fees listed here were approved at the June 1997 meeting of the on loan applications, federal income may be represented by counsel at such Trustees of Indiana University. Fees are subject to change by action of the trustees. For up-to-date tax returns, and other documents. hearing. The committee shall report its information about fees in effect at registration time, see the campus Schedule of Classes. (j) The place of the student’s summer determination to the student in writing. If employment, attendance at summer no appeal is taken within the time Certain courses and programs requiring studios, laboratories, microscopes, computers, or other school, or vacation. provided herein, the decision of the special equipment may involve special fees in addition to the instructional fee. Applied music, (k) The student’s future plans including registrar shall be final and binding. student teaching, and some physical education courses also carry additional fees. See the campus committed place of future 9. The Standing Committee on Residence is Schedule of Classes for a list of such courses and programs. employment or future studies. authorized to classify a student as a Fees for Indiana University campuses other than Bloomington and Indianapolis are published in (l) Admission to a licensed profession in resident student, though not meeting the the bulletin of the specific campus. Indiana. specific requirements herein set forth, if (m) Membership in civic, community, and such student’s situation presents unusual INSTRUCTIONAL FEES Indiana Resident Nonresident other organizations in Indiana or circumstances and the individual elsewhere. classification is within the general scope of Bloomington Campus (n) All present and intended future these rules. The decision of the committee Undergraduate1 $1,743.00 flat fee/semester $5,705.00 flat fee/ semester connections or contacts outside of shall be final and shall be deemed for 12 to 17 credit hours for 12 to 17 credit hours Indiana. equivalent to a decision of the Trustees of $108.80/credit hour $356.55/credit hour (o) The facts and documents pertaining to Indiana University. under 12 or over 17 under 12 or over 17 the person’s past and existing status 10. A student or prospective student who Graduate and Professional1 as a student. shall knowingly provide false information Business–M.B.A. Program2 $3,920.00/semester $7,843.00/semester (p) Parents’ tax returns and other or shall refuse to provide or shall conceal Business3 $251.25/credit hour $502.75/credit hour information, particularly when information for the purpose of improperly Law $200.65/credit hour $514.65/credit hour emancipation is claimed. achieving resident student status shall be Optometry $176.35/credit hour $489.10/credit hour 5. The fact that a person pays taxes and votes subject to the full range of penalties, Public and Environmental Affairs— $160.00/credit hour $448.00/credit hour in the state does not in itself establish including expulsion, provided for by the M.P.A. and M.S.E.S. Programs residence, but will be considered as university, as well as to such other Other $147.00/credit hour $428.25/credit hour hereinbefore set forth. punishment which may be provided for Independent Study (Correspondence) $89.45/credit hour $89.45/credit hour 6. The registrar or the person fulfilling those by law. Dissertation research (G901)4 $100.00/semester $100.00/semester duties on each campus shall classify each 11. A student who does not pay additional Auditing (no credit) $25.00/credit hour $25.00/credit hour 5 student as resident or nonresident and monies which may be due because of his Distance Education Special Courses for may require proof of all relevant facts. The or her classification as a nonresident Schools of Education; and Health, Physical Education, and Recreation burden of proof is upon the student student within 30 days after demand, shall Undergraduate $108.80/credit hour $108.80/credit hour making a claim to a resident student thereupon be indefinitely suspended. Graduate $147.00/credit hour $147.00/credit hour status. 12. A student or prospective student who fails 7. A Standing Committee on Residence shall to request resident student status within a Indianapolis Campus be appointed by the president of the particular semester or session and to university and shall include two students pursue a timely appeal (see rule 8) to the Undergraduate1 $106.25/credit hour $326.00/credit hour from among such as may be nominated by Standing Committee on Residence shall be Graduate and Professional1 the student body presidents of one or deemed to have waived any alleged Business $229.30/credit hour $458.60/credit hour more of the campuses of the university. If overpayment of fees for that semester or Dentistry $10,650.00/year $22,810.00/year fewer than four are nominated, the session. Engineering $155.50/credit hour $444.40/credit hour president may appoint from among 13. If any provision of these rules or the Law $194.10/credit hour $471.55/credit hour students not nominated. application thereof to any person or Medicine $11,925.00/year $27,300.00/year 8. A student who is not satisfied by the circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity Nursing $144.30/credit hour $416.30/credit hour determination of the registrar has the right does not affect other provisions or Social Work $147.00/credit hour $423.90/credit hour to lodge a written appeal with the applications of these rules which can be Other $144.30/credit hour $416.30/credit hour 4 Standing Committee on Residence within given effect without the invalid provision Dissertation research (G901) $100.00/semester $100.00/semester 30 days of receipt of written notice of the or application, and to this end the Auditing (no credit) applicable credit applicable credit hour rate hour rate registrar’s determination which committee provisions of these rules are severable. Distance Education Special Courses for Allied Health Histotechnology Undergraduate and Graduate $106.20/credit hour $106.20/credit hour

————————— 1 Includes credit courses in the School of Continuing Studies. 2 M.B.A. students enrolled in 9 or more credit hours of business courses will be assessed a flat rate. Enrollment in any courses other than business will be assessed on a per-credit-hour basis. 3 Graduate business credit hour rates apply to (a) M.B.A. students enrolled in fewer than 9 credit hours of business courses, and (b) students enrolled in a doctoral business program. 4 To keep their candidacies active, doctoral students with 90 credit hours or more and Master of Fine Arts students with 60 credit hours or more may enroll in G901 for a flat fee of $100. Also, they must have completed all graduate degree requirements except for the dissertation or final project/performance. Enrollment in G901 is limited to six times. Students who do not meet these criteria pay the applicable credit hour rate for dissertation research. 5In addition to instructional fee rates, course fees of $90.00 for Education and $75.00 for HPER will be assessed. 40 41

Course Fee Refund Schedule Time of Withdrawal Refund INCIDENTAL FEES6 Bloomington Campus Indianapolis Campus Time of Withdrawal Refund 1-week (or less) classes Application for admission 9- through 16-week classes During 1st day of classes 100% Domestic, undergraduate $35.00 $35.00 During 1st week of classes 100% During 2nd day of classes 50% Domestic, graduate $40.00 $35.00 During 2nd week of classes 75% During 3rd day of classes International $40.00 $50.00 During 3rd week of classes 50% and thereafter None Deferment service charge7 $21.00 $21.00 During 4th week of classes 25% The refund policy applies to credit hour fees Health service fee8 $70.50/semester optional During 5th week of classes and all course-related fees. $30.25/summer I and thereafter None Procedure See the Schedule of Classes for more $40.25/summer II 5- through 8-week classes information about how to withdraw from Late payment charge $48.00/semester $10.50/month During 1st week of classes 100% classes. Late program change9 $16.50/course added $18.50/course added During 2nd week of classes 50% or dropped Student Financial Assistance Students can During 3rd week of classes Late registration10 $48.00 to $88.00/semester $35.00 to $100.00/ obtain information about financial assistance and thereafter None $48.00/summer session semester through the financial aid office, through the $35.00 to $60.00/ 2- through 4-week classes student employment office, or through their summer session During the 1st and 2nd day of classes 100% schools and departments. For courses taken in Student activity fee11 $25.50 or $14.00 or $23.70/ During 3rd and 4th day of classes 50% Bloomington, contact the Office of Student $51.05/semester semester During 5th day of classes Financial Assistance or Human Resources $12.75 or $25.50/summer $25.00/semester for and thereafter None Management for information about faculty/ session Athletic Development staff fee courtesy; for courses taken at IUPUI, Technology fee, fall or spring semesters12 contact the Office of Student Financial Aid. Undergraduate $25.00, $50.00, $100.00 $25.00, $50.00, $75.00 Graduate/professional, nondegree students $12.00, $25.00, $50.00 (varies) Technology fee, summer sessions13 Undergraduate $12.50, $25.00, $50.00 $26.00, $39.00 Veterans Benefits Graduate/professional, Eligible students will receive veterans benefits according to the following scale, which is based on nondegree students $6.00, $12.50, $25.00 (varies) the number of credit hours in which the student is enrolled. Transcripts $7.00 $7.00 Bloomington and IUPUI Bloomington Undergraduate Fall/Spring IUPUI Bloomington and IUPUI Benefits Semesters 1 Summer I1 Summer I Summer II 1 full 12 or more 6 4 6 three-quarters 9-11 4-5 3 4-5 one-half 6-8 3 2 3 tuition only fewer than 6 1-2 1 1-2 ————————— Graduate 6Applicable to both in-state and out-of-state students. Benefits 7 Fee is assessed if deferred billing option is elected. full 8 or more 4 4 4 8The health fee is assessed each semester/session on the Bursar’s bill for all day and evening students enrolled in more than 3 credit hours. Eligible individuals not covered by the health fee will be seen on a fee-for-service three-quarters 6-7 3 3 3 basis. one-half 4-5 2 2 2 9After drop/add period (100 percent refund period), students will be assessed $16.50 in Bloomington and tuition only fewer than 4 1 1 1 $18.50 in Indianapolis for each added course, section change, change of arranged hours, or credit/audit change. On the Bloomington campus, students will also be assessed for each dropped course. 10A late registration fee will be assessed any student who does not register during the scheduled registration It is the responsibility of the veteran or veteran Veterans with service-connected disabilities period. On the Bloomington campus, the fee is $48.00 for students who register by the last Friday before classes dependent to sign up for benefits each may qualify for the Department of Veterans begin and increases by $10.00 on the Monday of each successive week to a maximum of $88.00. On the semester or summer session of enrollment. It is Affairs Vocational Rehabilitation Program. Indianapolis campus, a $35.00 late registration fee is in effect upon conclusion of registration through the end of also the responsibility of the veteran or veteran They should contact their regional VA office the first week of classes, increasing by $25.00 the first week, $22.00 the second week, and $18.00 the third week dependent on the Bloomington campus to for eligibility information. to a maximum of $100.00. In Indianapolis summer sessions, a late registration fee of $35.00 is assessed the first notify the Office of Disabled Student Services week, and $60.00 the second week and thereafter. At IUPUI, veterans and veteran dependents 11 and Veterans Affairs of any schedule change Bloomington students enrolled in 3 or fewer credit hours during the fall and spring semesters pay a that may increase or decrease the amount of must notify their veteran benefit mandatory student activity fee of $25.50. Students enrolled in more than 3 credit hours pay $51.05. Summer- benefits allowed. 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