University of Sheffield Information School
Established | 1963 |
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Location | , 53°22′52″N 1°28′46″W / 53.38114937342727°N 1.4795279191451092°W |
Language | English |
Website | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/is |
The Information School or iSchool of the
The department opened in 1964 as a library school, becoming only the second university-based department in the UK.
Research achievements
The School is Number One in the World for Library and Information Studies in the QS World University Rankings 2021.[5] The school has ranked highest or joint highest in its subject rating in every Research Assessment Exercise since the running of the first exercise in 1986. In this UK-government sponsored assessment of research outputs, no other department in its subject field (or its University) achieved this consistency; few departments of any subject area in UK universities managed such a high level of continuous research output (see the following links to the 1992,[6] 1996,[7] 2001[8] RAE results). In 2008, rankings of departments was left to news organizations; the Times Higher Education placed Sheffield at No. 1 again.[9]
In 2008, an analysis of citations showed four of the ten most cited UK information studies academics were working in the Sheffield department.
Notable staff, past and present
- Micheline Beaulieu - Chair of the Computing and Informatics Panel of the European Research Council (2008-2011)
- Sheila Corrall - first President of Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), 2002-3:.
- Michael Lynch, chemoinformatics specialist
- Wilfred Saunders, Founding Director of the Postgraduate School of Librarianship, Sheffield[11]
- Bob Usherwood - President of the Library Association, 1998; fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
- Steve Whittaker - inducted into the SIGCHI academy in 2008.
- Paul Clough[12] - Head of Information Retrieval Research Group
- Peter Willett - leading researcher in cheminformatics.
- Tom Wilson - recipient of the 2009 ASIS&T SIG USE award for "outstanding contributions to information behavior"[13] and Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Award of Merit, 2017.
Notable alumni
- Michael Buckland - Emeritus Professor at the University of California—Berkeley School of Information and Co-Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
- John McTernan - Director of Political Operations at 10 Downing Street under Tony Blair.
- Alasdair Paterson[14] - poet, winner of the 1975 Eric Gregory Award for poetry.
References
- ^ "iSchool Timeline". University of Sheffield: Information School. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
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- ^ "The University of Sheffield Department of Information Studies". Journal of Information Science. 15 (4–5). 1989.
- ^ "Special Issue, 40 years of the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield". Journal of Information Science. 29 (4). 2003.
- ^ "Library & Information Management". Top Universities. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ "UFC 26/92 - RAE92: The Outcome Table 64". Rae.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
- ^ "1996 RAE - Unit of Assessment: 61". Rae.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
- ^ "Results : 2001 Research Assessment Exercise : Unit of Assessment : 61 Library and Information Management". Rae.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
- ^ "Times Higher Education Table of Excellence" (PDF). Times Higher Education. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
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- ^ "Professor Wilfred Saunders". The Times. 8 October 2007. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
- ^ "Prof Paul Clough". Information School. University of Sheffield. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ^ "SIG USE : Awards". Asis.org. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
- ^ "Alasdair Paterson". Scottish Poetry Library. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ^ HatoonKadi (5 March 2021). "My School". Twitter. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
Further reading
- Saunders, W. L., ed. University and Research Library Studies: some contributions from the University of Sheffield Post-graduate School of Librarianship and Information Science. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1968
- Benson, Melanie T.; .