25 years in, Information School is more essential than ever
Twenty-five years ago, there were no smartphones or social media. Most of us had dial-up internet. We went to Blockbuster when we wanted to rent movies and read newspapers when we wanted to stay informed. Artificial intelligence was the stuff of science-fiction movies. But the internet was evolving rapidly and changing how people interacted with information. Librarianship skills — categorizing, collecting, accessing and drawing value from information — were becoming increasingly powerful.The University of Washington and the leaders of its Graduate School of Library and Information Scienc