Talk:List of information schools

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Merge[edit]

Merging these two articles is a good idea, but before a merge can be done, all of the pages that redirect to List of I-Schools must also redirect to School of Information. Otherwise, it creates a double redirect. Destitute 07:44, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Double Redirects have been taken care of and I am thus merging the articles.--Jorfer 21:20, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Degrees awarded overkill[edit]

Listing the degrees offered by each school makes this list a bit unwieldy. I'm removing the degree-level details from this list, and hope others will augment the individual (school-level) articles with specific degrees awarded. — HipLibrarianship ^talk 19:44, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Expanding scope[edit]

Just a heads-up that I plan to expand this article into a list of library and information science schools, which it already seems to be in practice. I'm also planning on marking those schools affiliated with the iSchools Project and those accredited by the ALA, the latter being the primary criterion for identifying good library schools. This will probably mean further expansion of information on US schools—I encourage anyone with knowledge about such schools in other countries to contribute, and I'll see what I can research on the topic. --BDD (talk) 20:27, 26 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The page is currently a combination of broader and narrower information as "iSchool" (in the sense of the iSchool consortium) is a generally considered a subset of the wider group of information schools, as described in the main article. Expansion and/or further clarification is welcome. -- 132.206.199.69 (talk) 18:19, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This page should be renamed to iSchools Organization.[edit]

For a page titled "List of information schools", I was quite surprised find out that the page is dominated by a single group: iSchools Organization.

While the content was more general before, it was converted to a page about iSchools Organization on 11 July 2011‎ by Hiplibrarianship. That includes removing information schools who weren't members of iSchools Organization.

That's fine for an iSchools Organization page, but based on the title of this page, it is a list of information schools, and not a list of members of a particular organization.

69.140.197.217 (talk) 03:03, 20 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The title of this entry in July 2011 was List of I-Schools and my good-faith edits at the time were indeed based on the membership roster of the organization (which was initially styled with a hyphen). While the current article title helpfully avoids the jargony I-schools/iSchools shorthand, it doesn't suggest any criteria for including/excluding "other" schools. — HipLibrarianship ^talk 04:58, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

An iSchool is a school that is a member of the iSchools organization. It's a marketing thing, not really jargon. Shouldn't the page either be a list of iSchools (i.e. schools that are members of the organization) or information schools (or LIS schools) more generally? Rlitwin (talk) 13:16, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]