GSLIS Building on Its Success - Graduate School of Library and Information Science - Brief Article

Information Outlook, Jan, 2000

The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS),in Champaign, Illinois, celebrated the ground breaking for the construction project that will double its size. With the help of LEEP3, GSLIS's distance education program, the student population has doubled, the school budget has tripled to $5.6 million, and grant funding to faculty and students has grown ten times to $2.5 million.

The Illinois Library computer Systems Organization has donated $2 million toward the building fund and will move its headquarters and training facilities to the building.