The iSchools in the Media
Drexel iSchool Enrollment Growing
From the Philadelphia Inquirer: At a time when free access to the Internet, books, movies, and lectures is more important than ever, libraries across the country - where many librarians are graying and retiring - are seeking skilled information specialists, trained and college-educated in the library sciences. And library science programs here are filling the need.
Today, Drexel has 610 students in that program - among the oldest of its kind - more than three times the 181 the college had in 2000.
"Libraries are essential to our society. . . . So are librarians," said David Fenske, dean of Drexel's College of Information Sciences, which offers a master's degree program in library and information sciences that has reached historic capacity.
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