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Information Science Vision Statement
The Department of Information Studies defines, studies, and evaluates interactions among people, information and information technology in a pluralistic society. The Department values and promotes equity, diversity, accountability and intellectual openness.
The Department integrates wide-ranging scholarly, professional, technological and institutional perspectives in its teaching, research and public service. Across each of these activities, the Department engages with and is driven by real world information issues and community and institutional needs. The Department also promotes the essential role played by information institutions such as libraries and archives as social, cultural, educational, and intellectual centers in our society.
In particular, we examine and encourage:
• The design of information systems and services for individuals, communities, cultures, disciplines and literacies;
• The creation, preservation, documentation and curation of information in all media and settings;
• Access to information, in all its manifestations, that empowers and enfranchises individuals and communities in and over time; and
• The framing of ongoing policy and institutional dialogue related to the social and intellectual implications of a global information society.
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