What are SIMS students being educated to do?
Answer. Every organization has to manage information. Some of this information is generated externally, some of it is generated internally. All of it has to be stored, organized, retrieved, manipulated, displayed, searched, and archived. More and more of this information is becoming available in digital form, and we believe that there will be lots of good jobs for people who know how to managed digital information effectively. Some of the coursework necessary to manage digital information is part of the traditional library school curriculum: cataloging, information retrieval, archiving, reference, and authority control. Some of the names have changed and some of the content has changed–we now talk about organization of information, backup, needs assessment, and so on-but the underlying functions are similar and many of the classic principles apply. But other courses are new: human-computer interface, visualization, data mining, security, and project management are also necessary skill
