Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Information School or iSchool of the University of Sheffield, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, was founded in 1963 as the University's Postgraduate School of Librarianship and became in 2010 the first UK iSchool. Other names were the Postgraduate School of Librarianship and Information Science (PGSLIS, 1967-81) and Department of Information Studies (1981-2011). As of 2011, it employs 19 academic staff, 8 administrative/support staff, 13 affiliated research staff, and has about 40 research students. The current head of department is Professor Philippa Levy.The department opened in 1964 as a library school, becoming only the second University based department in the UK. Since then, like many information science departments it has grown to encompass teaching and research in cheminformatics, educational informatics, health informatics, information retrieval, information systems, knowledge and information management, as well as libraries and information society. Such is the status of the school, that it has twice been honored with a special issue of the Journal of Information Science devoted entirely to the department, its staff and its research outputs.. }
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- Sheffield_iSchool abstract "The Information School or iSchool of the University of Sheffield, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, was founded in 1963 as the University's Postgraduate School of Librarianship and became in 2010 the first UK iSchool. Other names were the Postgraduate School of Librarianship and Information Science (PGSLIS, 1967-81) and Department of Information Studies (1981-2011). As of 2011, it employs 19 academic staff, 8 administrative/support staff, 13 affiliated research staff, and has about 40 research students. The current head of department is Professor Philippa Levy.The department opened in 1964 as a library school, becoming only the second University based department in the UK. Since then, like many information science departments it has grown to encompass teaching and research in cheminformatics, educational informatics, health informatics, information retrieval, information systems, knowledge and information management, as well as libraries and information society. Such is the status of the school, that it has twice been honored with a special issue of the Journal of Information Science devoted entirely to the department, its staff and its research outputs.".