Two more LIS programs are being maneuvered into new homes in the coming months. St. Catherine’s is apparently set to announce that its School of Professional Studies is being eliminated with LIS being moved into the Business School. All this, apparently, without much if any consultation, if the emails from various parties are to be believed. The other programs in that school also move, with Education also going to Business and Leadership, while Social Work moves to the School of Health. No doubt one can spin this in positive ways and I am sure they will. At Indiana, the long-standing School of LIS is embarking on ‘discussions’ about a merger with Informatics but it’s hard to think there’s much room for negotiation when the President is quoted on this very subject in the weekend paper saying: “There’s no point in saving a school that trains people to manage fleets of horses if the motorcar has taken over horse-drawn transportation.” Guess which one of the two he was talking about?
V.M Daniel Regents Professor of Information