Professional Development Academies in Education

Professional Development Programs in Information Studies

UCLA’s School of Education & Information Studies is home to two departments. Each is a leader in their field, helping to pioneer what's next in the Education and Information worlds.

UCLA Ed&IS faculty are at the forefront of their fields, addressing issues of equality, access and social justice in the fields of education and information. Their scholarship has an international reputation for excellence and commitment to addressing the most critical issues facing our society.

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Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are defining features of UCLA Ed&IS and we embrace them as a source of strength.

Department of Education 2023 Information Sessions

Department of Information Studies Programs

Department of Information Studies 2023 Information Sessions

Learn more about the undergraduate and graduate academic programs we offer, when program information sessions are being offered and how to apply.

GSE&IS 226
300 North Charles E. Young Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520

Department of Information Studies

Information-Seeking Behavior

Library Studies

Preservation

Gregory Leazer

D.L.S., Columbia University, School of Library Service. May, 1993

M.S., Columbia University, School of Library Service. August, 1990

B.A., Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison. May, 1987

Evaluation of bibliographic retrieval systems

Rob Montoya and Gregory Leazer, editors, special issue of Knowledge Organization on the Politics of Classification.  2019.

Keilty, Patrick, and G. Leazer. 2018. Feeling Documents: Toward a Phenomenology of Information Seeking. Journal of Documentation 74: 462-489.

Leazer, G.  2016.  iSchools, Legitimacy, and the Contribution of Archival Studies to the iSchool Movement.  Proceedings of the 2016 iConference.  Philadelphia, PA.