Ischools: Information, Technology And The Individual

iSchools are a collection of schools interested in information, technology and users. They emerged from schools of library science and the library and information science tradition. Sixty-five schools world-wide are currently part of the iSchool movement. In North America, iSchools are primarily linked to the American Library Association (ALA), owing largely to the accreditation process of the graduate programmes offered. Even though ALA validates the education of information professionals and that iSchools are mainly interested in the education of researchers studying information as a phenomenon, both perspectives can be complimentary.