LIBRARY STUDIES AT THE SCHOOL OF INFORMATION

Library and information studies (LIS) remains an integral part of the newly chartered School of Information at the University of Michigan. F orging student, community-based, and foundation partnerships, LIS facu lty are helping to re-define the role of information professionals in their research, teaching, and services. Faculty are defining and pract icing a new integrated discipline arising from the interactions among information, technology, and human systems. In collaboration with coll eagues and students from disciplines including archives and records ma nagement, human computer interaction, public policy, psychology, compu ter science, and economics, LIS faculty are working to design a broad- based curriculum and a common set of foundations courses for all maste rs students in the program. In this article. Frost, an LIS faculty mem ber who has been with the school for over 20 years, reflects on how te aching and research in cataloging and organization of information have been revitalized through project-based learning, collaboration with s tudents and faculty from computer science and the arts, and community service to broaden the reach of cultural heritage materials.