• Chair / Director: Virgil L. P. Blake
  • Dept. Office Rosenthal 254
  • Phone: 718-997-3790

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Library and Information Studies offers a 36-credit graduate program leading to the degree of Master of Library Science (MLS), as well as a 30-credit post-master’s certificate. The program prepares professionals to work in various information environments, including libraries and information/research centers and function as information specialists, school media specialists and librarians, among other possibilities.
Library/information science consists of a comprehensive, interdisciplinary body of knowledge concerning the creation, communication, location, evaluation, selection, acquisition, analysis, organization, storage, retrieval, preservation, management, dissemination, and use of information (data, concepts, ideas, images) and documents of all types (print and electronic records, sound recordings, video-recordings, films, and pictures) that may be used to store and convey this information. Its purpose is to serve the informational needs and interests (artistic, business, economic, educational, recreational, scientific, and technical) of individuals, groups, and institutions.
No undergraduate degree and/or major in library science is available currently.
For further details consult the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies.

Departmental information is taken from the 2003 - 2005 Queens College Bulletin.