Who are the iSchools?
Department of Information Studies at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
The Department of Information Studies at UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies is internationally recognized for research in areas such as digital archives and libraries, multimedia databases, social implications of the Internet, organization of knowledge and information policy. The department educates future librarians, archivists, and information professionals, focusing on system design and end-users of information and their needs and studying the ways people search for and use information.
Research in the department revolves around all aspects of collecting, preserving and cataloging information in all its forms to make it accessible for public use. Researchers focus on all kinds of environments where information is stored and retrieved, including the World Wide Web, museums, corporations, schools, universities, and public libraries.