Nov 03, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

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


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The entirely online Master of Library Science is designed to help you become a 21st century librarian. As an information expert, educator, 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.

Application Deadlines:

  • Fall Semester Start- applications due July 31
  • Spring Semester Start- applications due December 1
  • Summer Semester Starts- applications due April 15

Minimum Graduate Hour Total: 36 Semester Hours


Note:


Students who seek Missouri School Library Media Specialist PK-12 certification are advised to consult with the LIS Program Coordinator or the Department of Educational Technology and Library Science .

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