School of Information

The Reinberger Children’s Library Center at Kent State University has become the new home of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, assuming the role formerly held by the Center for Children’s Books at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  This prestigious honor joins other notable programs at the Reinberger, including ...

U.S. News & World Report ranks Kent State University in the top 20 Best Library and Information Studies Programs in the country in its 2022 edition of Best Graduate Schools. Kent State is the only Ohio institution included in this ranking. Overall, Kent State is recognized in 12 new national rankings in the 2022 edition of Best Graduat...

In fields as diverse as public libraries, hospitals, online marketplaces, global technology and communication organizations, museums and universities, graduates from the School of Information (iSchool) are leaders in their industries. Learn about how some of them have used the education they received in the iSchool to make a difference and...

Each year the American Library Association selects student chapters who exemplify values of excellence, service and compliance while performing at a consistently high level, making a difference in the lives of their students. This year, Kent State’s ALA Student Chapter was selected as the runner-up for the award. The Student Chapter ...

Children and young adults are among the most vulnerable victims of the current opioid crisis. Circumstances well beyond their control impact their lives in huge ways.  And the key to recovery of any kind is hope—hope for something better, hope for lasting change.  However, as communities and families struggle, hope can be hard to...

David Trebing, Ph.D., an associate professor in the School of Communication Studies (COMM), and Stephanie Smith, an assistant professor who teaches in COMM and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC), will lead a teaching colloquium on Friday, April 13, in Rm. 226 of Taylor Hall beginning at 2:15 p.m.   ...

The idea for the latest MuseLab exhibit grew out of a Museum Communications course, and was later implemented by students completing their culminating experience: Four chairs rescued from a curb in Kent, Ohio. Four tales of an imagined past. Explore their unique "stories" in this new exhibit. Watch for blog posts on June 1 and J...

Fusionist. Cybernetic Director. Chief Drone Experience Designer. Avatar programmer. User experience designers at Google, Microsoft, Android, Chrome and Artefact have predicted that these job titles are among the most important design jobs of the future, according to an article in Fast Company Co.Design, the world’s leading progressive b...