Wayne State University School of Information Sciences

Wayne State University School of Information Sciences We prepare information professionals for exciting careers in a rapidly evolving field.

Located in Detroit's vibrant cultural district, we offer graduate programs for both new students and experienced professionals seeking advanced
education.

Tonight's the night! If you're at SAA, we can't wait to see you. Join us for Wayne State's alumni reception celebrating ...
07/31/2026

Tonight's the night! If you're at SAA, we can't wait to see you. Join us for Wayne State's alumni reception celebrating 65 years of our archival program. Hyatt Regency New Orleans, Room Bolden 6, 6:30 to 8 p.m. New Orleans-style refreshments served. Come find us!

We're proud to share what two of our SIS grads are up to in the library makerspace world.Adam Pecar runs the DREAM Lab a...
07/23/2026

We're proud to share what two of our SIS grads are up to in the library makerspace world.

Adam Pecar runs the DREAM Lab at Grosse Pointe Public Library's Woods Branch, teaching patrons 3D printing and other maker tech. He's also a founding member of the Guild of Library Makers, which started as a few southeastern Michigan librarians comparing notes in 2023 and has grown into a 230+ member nonprofit across about 80 library systems in the US and Germany. Alex Centala works as an adult services and makerspace librarian at St. Clair Shores Public Library and handles communications for the Guild.

Their next conference, GoLMCon, is September 18 at Southfield Public Library, with sessions on makerspace safety, Cricut programming and digital preservation.

Learn more about Adam, Alex, the Guild and more through the full story here: https://loom.ly/AA14Gig

Over the past two years, members of the Mapping Information Access research group, including Emily Knox, Shannon Oltmann...
07/20/2026

Over the past two years, members of the Mapping Information Access research group, including Emily Knox, Shannon Oltmann, and Andy Zalot, have been interviewing public library directors to find out more about their experiences with book challenges. Several new best practices for policies and guidelines have emerged from these interviews.

Join us on Zoom on July 29 at 2 p.m. as they share preliminary findings from this research, including best practices to implement in your library.

RSVP at https://loom.ly/B7G17Qg to join

Katherine Moyer started shelving books in a college library in 1997. Almost 30 years later, she's finishing her MLIS at ...
07/17/2026

Katherine Moyer started shelving books in a college library in 1997. Almost 30 years later, she's finishing her MLIS at Wayne State, still working full time. She picked Wayne State because her coworkers had done the program and told her to go for it. Online classes meant she could study from her home office in Jackson without giving up her job or her routine. Her advice for anyone thinking about it is to stop waiting and just go do it!

Read Katherine's full story at https://loom.ly/m7Yb3dc

Monica VanTuyle spent 30 years teaching middle school English before starting a second career as a school librarian. She...
07/10/2026

Monica VanTuyle spent 30 years teaching middle school English before starting a second career as a school librarian. She's now District Media Specialist for a rural school district in Lenawee County, and she's working toward her Library Media Endorsement through Wayne State's online SIS program. Her advice for anyone on the fence is to just give it a shot. The flexibility of the program made it so she could study around her family and her job instead of putting her life on hold.

Learn more about Monica at https://loom.ly/aJjXt18

Staff from the Wayne State University Libraries and School of Information Sciences has expanded Dolly Parton's Imaginati...
07/01/2026

Staff from the Wayne State University Libraries and School of Information Sciences has expanded Dolly Parton's Imagination Library to Southwest Detroit's 48209 and 48210 ZIP codes, thanks to a $15,000 gift from the Government Employees Health Association. Enrolled children get free books delivered every month from birth to age 5. Michigan ranks 44th in literacy in the country, and this program is step in the right direction to raise literacy rates. Families in ZIP codes 48209, 48210, 48201 and 48202 can register free at imaginationlibrary.org.

Book challenges aren't slowing down, and librarians need new strategies for handling them. On July 29 at 2 p.m. EST, SI...
06/26/2026

Book challenges aren't slowing down, and librarians need new strategies for handling them. On July 29 at 2 p.m. EST, SIS Associate Dean Shannon Oltmann and Emily Knox, interim dean and professor, and Andy Zalot, doctoral student, both at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, share what they've learned from interviewing public library directors across the country about their experiences on the front lines. Register at https://loom.ly/B7G17Qg

What do vinyl records, Detroit Techno a mural at Murals in the Market, and air quality advocacy have in common? They're ...
06/16/2026

What do vinyl records, Detroit Techno a mural at Murals in the Market, and air quality advocacy have in common? They're all part of one SIS student's journey to his MLIS. Tyler Dancer started volunteering in libraries at age six. Life took him across the ocean and back to Wayne State, where he's now putting his life experience to work in the stacks and in his community. Read his full student spotlight https://loom.ly/cLEKSWE

SIS alum. Drummer. Co-founder of a Detroit indie band 16 years running. Maria Nuccilli and Deadbeat Beat just dropped th...
06/16/2026

SIS alum. Drummer. Co-founder of a Detroit indie band 16 years running. Maria Nuccilli and Deadbeat Beat just dropped their fourth album, From Here to Ohio, and Detroit Metro Times just gave them a full feature to mark the occasion. Read about what it takes to keep a creative project alive for two decades. Read the full story https://loom.ly/e4eDWqM

What started as a family story became a window into Black Detroit history. SIS professor Kafi Kumasi traced five generat...
06/15/2026

What started as a family story became a window into Black Detroit history. SIS professor Kafi Kumasi traced five generations of college graduates through Detroit's archives and uncovered remarkable stories of resilience, community and the people who shaped this city.

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