Library Science

• The UW-Eau Claire library science program includes supervised work in a library or media center, where students acquire valuable experience and apply their classroom learning.
• Students gain hands-on experience working with hi-tech equipment including library automation systems, networked instructional computing labs, computers, video recorders and cameras.
• Students have easy access to library resources and special collections such as the children's book collection in the university's Instructional Media Center.
• Students master the use of computers to simplify library procedures and improve library services to the public.
• The department also participates in the UW System School Library Education Consortium where students can gain initial and advanced (901 and 902) licensure as school library media specialists through Web-based graduate programs.
• UW-Eau Claire classes, unlike those at many other public universities, are not taught by teaching assistants. Students work alongside dedicated professors and library professionals who inspire learning.
• Small classes, individual attention.

Library Science Fact Sheet