About Us
The Department of Information Studies was founded in 1963 as the Postgraduate School of Librarianship. We have an international reputation for the quality of our research, the expertise of our staff and the achievements of its graduates. We were awarded a top 5*A rating in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise and have been awarded an 'excellent' score of 22 points for Teaching Quality by HEFCE.
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The Department of Information Studies
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Location of Department
We are located in modern, purpose-built accommodation in the heart of the University Campus and ten minutes walk from Sheffield City Centre. We are adjacent to the University's St. George's Library, which houses many of the texts relevant to the Department's taught programmes and research groups.
Staff in the Department
Our Department, headed by Professor Sheila Corrall, currently has eighteen members of academic staff. Our staff also include a computer manager and two computer technicians, a research manager and programme development officer, as well as administrative and secretarial staff. We also have a large number of research staff and research students, many of whom also contribute to the teaching in the Department.
IT / Computing Facilities
Our Department is well-equipped with computing facilities for teaching, research, and administration, including PC laboratories and facilities for online-searching of databases. The main teaching laboratory has a large number of networked PCs running a wide range of the latest versions of major software packages, for word-processing, spreadsheets, databases, web page design etc. as well as more specialised software. The Michael Lynch Research Computing Laboratory has a number of networked PCs as well as UNIX-based workstations. The departmental network is linked to the University Campus Network, thereby giving both staff and students access to a whole host of further more specialised software and CD-ROM and Internet-based information sources.
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