The School of Information Studies (SIS) at McGill University is a school focused on the management and design of information resources, services, and systems to ensure adequate access to information and knowledge for all.
SIS has been offering programs at McGill since 1897, and its Masters program has been continuously accredited by the American Library Association since 1929.
[1] The School is located in a historic[citation needed] building at 3661 Peel Street on the downtown McGill University campus.
SIS offers the following graduate-level programs:[2] SIS professors are engaged in the broad research area of Human Information Interaction (HII)[3] with many projects falling in the core research areas: The School is home to three affiliated research labs:[4]
Following the founding of an apprenticeship-training program in librarianship in 1897, the McGill Summer Library School was formally founded in 1904 under the jurisdiction of the University Library Committee to offer education in library administration.