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School of Information Resources
and Library Science
1515 East First Street
Tucson, AZ 85719
Tel: (520) 621-3565
Fax: (520) 621-3279
sirls@email.arizona.edu

Department Director

Dr. Bryan Heidorn
1515 East First Street
Tucson, AZ 85719
Tel: (520) 621-3565
Fax: (520) 621-3279
heidorn@email.arizona.edu

SIRLS is headed to ALA Chicago on June 27- July 2. Come visit us at the Alumni Reception on June 30 at Gino's East. RSVP to Gina Macaluso ginamacaluso@email.arizona.edu:
SIRLS is headed to ALA Chicago on June 27- July 2. Come visit us at the Alumni Reception on June 30 at Gino's East. RSVP to Gina Macaluso ginamacaluso@email.arizona.edu:
eSociety Program to Teach Social Aspects of Digital Age: This degree will prepare students for related work in social media marketing, digital resources, information management & online collaborative work
eSociety Program to Teach Social Aspects of Digital Age: This degree will prepare students for related work in social media marketing, digital resources, information management & online collaborative work
This year’s Information Ethics Roundtable, an annual conference co-founded by SIRLS Professors Kay Mathiesen & Don Fallis, will be held at the University of Washington. Kay, Don, and Laura Lenhart will be presenting.
This year’s Information Ethics Roundtable, an annual conference co-founded by SIRLS Professors Kay Mathiesen & Don Fallis, will be held at the University of Washington. Kay, Don, and Laura Lenhart will be presenting.
After one year, it is time to say goodbye to our SIRLS Visiting Scholar Xiang Fei. SIRLS wishes him the best of luck and we will continue to stay in touch. Fei will truly be missed.
After one year, it is time to say goodbye to our SIRLS Visiting Scholar Xiang Fei. SIRLS wishes him the best of luck and we will continue to stay in touch. Fei will truly be missed.
SIRLS is headed to ALA Chicago on June 27- July 2. Come visit us at the Alumni Reception on June 30 at Gino's East. RSVP to Gina Macaluso ginamacaluso@email.arizona.edu:
eSociety Program to Teach Social Aspects of Digital Age: This degree will prepare students for related work in social media marketing, digital resources, information management & online collaborative work
This year’s Information Ethics Roundtable, an annual conference co-founded by SIRLS Professors Kay Mathiesen & Don Fallis, will be held at the University of Washington. Kay, Don, and Laura Lenhart will be presenting.
After one year, it is time to say goodbye to our SIRLS Visiting Scholar Xiang Fei. SIRLS wishes him the best of luck and we will continue to stay in touch. Fei will truly be missed.
SIRLS May 2013 Graduation Celebration Recording

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2013 SIRLS Awards Ceremony

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SIRLS Doctoral Program Application Deadline Extended - May 15

Applications for admission to the Doctoral Program for Fall 2013 has been extended to May 15th. ... read more

eSociety: New SIRLS Bachelor of Arts Degree or Undergraduate Minor Degree

The School of Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS) is proud to announce the creation of a new academic program, eSociety, which will offer students the opportunity to pursue either a Bachelor of Arts degree or an Undergraduate Minor degree in eSociety.  Innovations in communication and computational technology are fundamentally changing the ways we create, process, share, manage, and shape knowledge. Indeed, in the first decade of the 21st century, the development of digital and... read more

Welcome to School of Information Resources & Library Science

The School of Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS) is an academic department and a professional school in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at The University of Arizona, Arizona’s only public land grant university. The Library and Information Science disciplines (LIS) and interdisciplinary perspectives relevant to knowledge and information resources comprise the intellectual foundations of the school.

School News

  • Public Access to Federally Supported R&D Publications
      Bryan Heidorn, the SIRLS Director, served as Rapporteur for the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Research Council Public Comment meeting concerning Public Access to Federally Supported R&D Publications on May 14-15, 2013 in Washington DC. The meeting was held at behest of most of the Federal Agencies that are impacted by the Feb 22, 2013 memorandum of the Office of Science...
  • Jennifer Rae Lyall-Wilson Successfully Defends Dissertation
      Congratulations to Jennifer Rae Lyall-Wilson, who today successfully defended her IRLS Dissertation titled, AUTOMATIC CONCEPT-BASED QUERY EXPANSION USING TERM RELATIONAL PATHWAYS BUILT FROM A COLLECTION-SPECIFIC ASSOCIATION THESAURUS. It is a very impressive piece of research that paves the way for improved retrieval performance over collections of documents in many disciplines. This...
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