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The School of Information at the University of Michigan
The School of Information at the University of Michigan works to develop an integrated understanding of human needs and their relationships to information systems and social structures. In short, we seek to connect people, information, and technology in more valuable ways.
Our field of study is information: how it is created, identified, collected, structured, managed, preserved, accessed, processed, and presented; how it is used in different environments, with different technologies, and over time.
We look for unifying principles that illuminate the role of information in computation and cognition, communication and community. We educate information professionals who can apply these principles to synthesize human-centered and technological perspectives. In doing so we nurture leaders for the information age.
Building on rich traditions of service, leadership, research, and access, we forge a new body of theory, principles, and practices from the best of past and present scholarship in library and information science, computer science, the humanities, and the social sciences.
Rather than seeing theory and application of knowledge as polar opposites, we view them as two axes on a matrix and strive to flourish in the quadrant where the two meet, developing basic research but also applying it to solve real-world problems.
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