[Asis-l] Haythornthwaite Named Director of Syracuse's Library Science Program

[J.D. Ross]

Caroline Haythornthwaite Named Next Director of Library Science Program

Elizabeth D. Liddy, Dean of the School of Information Studies<https://ischool.syr.edu> (iSchool) at Syracuse University has named Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite<https://ischool.syr.edu/people/directories/view/chaythor/> as the next director of the School’s Library and Information Science graduate program. The program includes master’s degrees in Library and Information Science<https://ischool.syr.edu/academics/graduate/masters-degrees/ms-library-and-information-science/> and Library and Information Science – School Media<https://ischool.syr.edu/academics/graduate/masters-degrees/ms-library-information-science-school-media/>.

Haythornthwaite will begin her tenure as program director at the start of the next academic year in July 2017. She will take over from Associate Professor of Practice Jill Hurst-Wahl<https://ischool.syr.edu/people/directories/view/jahurst/>, who has served in the position since 2012.

“Caroline has a distinguished research, teaching, and administration record,” says Liddy, “and I am confident that she will be a strong leader for the program as we move forward and upward.”

Haythornthwaite came to the iSchool this fall after serving as director of the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia, where she was responsible for overseeing its five degree programs, faculty, staff and strategic direction. Prior to her time in British Columbia, she served in various faculty positions at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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