Colleagues, Please share the message below to any New York focused professional mailing lists, forums or networks that you may be subscribed to. With thanks, James From: James Lowry <James.Lowry@qc.cuny.edu> Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM To: glisann@lists.qc.cuny.edu <glisann@lists.qc.cuny.edu> Subject: Invitation to Comment - GSLIS Strategic Planning To students, alumni, employers, and all information professionals in the New York metropolitan area, In Fall 2025, the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/home> (GSLIS) will be conducting a strategic planning exercise, to set a direction for the future of the school and its programs. Ahead of that planning process, we would like to understand the views of GSLIS students, alumni, employers and others in the field with an interest in seeing a thriving information studies program at Queens College. We are inviting you to share your perspectives on how GSLIS could or should develop in the areas of student learning outcomes; curriculum; facilities, resources, staffing, and faculty; student life, support and opportunities for development; and the broader mission and goals of the school. Please use this form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVR2aNeOOszySJRznhzOUbZPzUbmVjVrwTHyOlJV-Zg07EHg/viewform?usp=header> to respond to the following questions. In the next five years, how would you like to see GSLIS change or grow in the areas of: Learning outcomes<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/about-us/mission-goals?authuser=0__;!!E8lrGBvW!qmq2fs7vpjeRzGk9KhIFltZ3IKgaQV2rzwQFz4MQEzlZykdK4ZAjkVxuf4n5bf4_mLnxK9RVM3zX6ucnQvxf6E4TUlcarIqyuxhRXLGA$>? What are the essential knowledge and skills you would like to see in our graduates? Curriculum? How should our programs, advanced certificates, concentrations, courses and course content change to respond to today’s information challenges? See the Course Catalog<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/current-students/gslis-course-catalog?authuser=0__;!!E8lrGBvW!qmq2fs7vpjeRzGk9KhIFltZ3IKgaQV2rzwQFz4MQEzlZykdK4ZAjkVxuf4n5bf4_mLnxK9RVM3zX6ucnQvxf6E4TUlcarIqyu2Dq1Pj7$> for the current state of the curriculum. Facilities, resources, staffing, and faculty? Student life, support, opportunities for development? The mission and goals of the school<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/about-us/mission-goals?authuser=0__;!!E8lrGBvW!qmq2fs7vpjeRzGk9KhIFltZ3IKgaQV2rzwQFz4MQEzlZykdK4ZAjkVxuf4n5bf4_mLnxK9RVM3zX6ucnQvxf6E4TUlcarIqyuxhRXLGA$>? What is your vision for the school and its graduates? Please share this call for comment widely with your professional networks, and thank you in advance for taking the time to help inform the direction of New York’s only publicly supported, ALA accredited information studies program. Sincerely, James Lowry, on behalf of GSLIS Dr. James Lowry (he/him) Professor Chair and Director, Information Studies, Queens College<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis> City University of New York<https://www.cuny.edu/> Ellen Libretto and Adam Conrad Endowed Chair in Information Studies, Affiliate Faculty, MA in Digital Humanities and MS in Data Analysis and Visualization, CUNY Graduate Center