Charting the Information Age

If you’d like to help people navigate through the flood of today’s traditional and cyber-based information to reach their goals, or, if you are interested in helping organizations manage, use and preserve the records they collect and create, the Department of Information Studies can give you the knowledge, skills and experiences to prepare you for these professional roles.

Inspired by 1880s library pioneer Melvil Dewey, the Department has evolved over the years to keep pace with the growing importance of information to society, and along the way has acquired a distinguished legacy of scholarship and leadership in the field.

The Department’s mission is to provide and promote education and leadership in the information professions through distinguished teaching, research, and service. As one of three departments in UAlbany’s pioneering College of Computing and Information, it provides a unique blend of programs to put graduates at the leading edge of the Information Society. (The other CCI departments are Computer Science and Informatics.)

Working in a wide variety of formats, students learn how information is created, organized, represented, stored, accessed, retrieved, managed and protected in both traditional and non-traditional media. In addition, they investigate the uses and impacts of information and technology on individuals, organizations and society, including formal and informal communities, libraries, government, and business.