Master of Library Science (56-5601) (36 hours)

The entirely online Master of Library Science is designed to help you become a 21st century librarian. As an information expert, teacher, and collaborator, the librarian develops, promotes, and implements a program that engages the community as they become effective lifelong users and creators of information. Our program prepares students to:

• Apply the core principles, ethics, and values of the information professions, to analyze complex problems. 
• Integrate the theory and practice of library and information services in diverse settings and with a diverse community.
• Use learning theories to design instructional methods and assessments to educate within their area of specialization.
• Demonstrate an ability to promote inquiry, lifelong learning, and digital and information literacy within the library program at the institution in which they are employed.
• Connect the library with the larger community, including development of services and resource collections for diverse populations.
• Have knowledge of policies, advocacy, and professional development as they work towards sustainable library practices.
• Practically develop strategies to manage library staff, prepare budgets, and design safe and inclusive library spaces.
• Articulate key issues in the information creation, collection, organization, storage, retrieval, dissemination, and service.
• Equitably plan for the distribution of resources, with consideration of issues of power, oppression, and the cultural needs of the community in which the candidate is employed.
• Apply research theory, methods, and techniques to work within the information professions.
• Use data to make informed, responsible decisions for assessment and evaluation of information practices.