UW-Madison SLIS Gains Continued Accreditation

The Committee on Accreditation of the American Library Association has informed the School of Library and Information Studies that its accreditation will be unconditionally continued for the maximum seven years following an extended process that culminated in a meeting with the COA at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia.

The School, which has been continuously accredited since ALA first undertook to accredit education for the field in 1924-25, will next be reviewed in 2014.

According to Louise Robbins, director, the School was in much better shape this time than the last time it was reviewed. “We are grateful for the support we have received from the College and the University and from our graduates and friends across the community and country,” Robbins said. “The faculty and staff devoted a lot of time to self-study and to the preparation of the report and the site visit by our External Review Panel. Without everyone’s efforts—and the excellent editorial and production work of Allison Kaplan—this would have been a much more arduous process.”