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Library and Information Science, MS

The Master of Science in Library and Information Science (LIS) program at Pratt Institute is the oldest LIS program in the country, with its first class beginning in 1890. With strength in the area of archives and cultural heritage, as well as an extensive history with children and youth services, we provide an immersive, hands-on and experiential learning experience, preparing students for careers as librarians, archivists and other information professionals.

Prof. Anthony Cocciolo with students

Our Faculty

Our faculty are comprised of full-time faculty, who are researchers and scholars holding doctoral degrees, and our part-time faculty who are accomplished professionals holding a range of roles in New York City institutions and companies. Full-time faculty act as advisors to students and help connect career goals with the program curriculum, and teach over half of the courses.

Faculty List and Bios

Select faculty teaching in the Library & Information Science program include:

Kathy Carbone

Assistant Professor

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Leanne Bowler

Professor

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Irene Lopatovska

Professor

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Shawnta Smith-Cruz

Adjunct Assistant Professor

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American Library Association Accreditation

The MSLIS program at Pratt Institute is accredited by the American Library Association (ALA) with the status of Continued accreditation. Pratt’s MSLIS program has been continuously accredited since 1924/25 when ALA first began accrediting LIS programs.  For statistical information on our LIS program, please visit the LIS Key Statistics webpage.

Student Work

Pratt’s School of Information

We reimagine information and technology to design more equitable, resilient and diverse futures. Motivated by our vision and mission, we are not only the oldest information school in North America, we are a forward-looking and data-driven school, committed to the success of our students and furthering diversity, equity and inclusion

More about Pratt’s iSchool

Location and Facilities

Located at the crossroads of the Greenwich Village and Chelsea neighborhoods, our home at Pratt Manhattan Center offers an excellent environment that provides easy access to all that New York City has to offer. Our specialized facilities facilitate our hands-on curriculum: from usability eye-tracking studies to archival reformatting projects and beyond. A facility designed specifically to support our LIS program includes:


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@PrattInstitute School of Information (iSchool) - We reimagine information and technology to design more equitable, resilient and diverse futures.
  • Current Students - we are pleased to announce that we are now accepting fellowship applications for the 2026-2027 academic year! The fellowship program supports 2-semester practicum-internships that are designed to provide students with exceptional professional-level experience in NYC's great cultural institutions. The fellowships include:

Brooklyn Public Library Center for Brooklyn History Art & Artifact Collection Fellowship
Brooklyn Public Library Children’s & Young Adult Services Fellowship
Brooklyn Museum Archives Fellowship
Franklin Furnace Fellowship
Frick Art Research Library Fellowship
Lesbian Herstory Archives Fellowship
MoMA Library Fellowship
MoMA Archives Linked Open Data Fellowship
MoMA Product Design Fellowship 
Met Museum Watson Library Fellowship
Whitney Museum Digital Asset & Preservation Fellowship
Metropolitan Museum Data Analysis & Visualization for Collections Information Fellowship
Metropolitan Museum Digital Product Design Fellowship
Museum of the City of New York Digital Media Fellowship

Please note that the application deadline is Monday, April 6, 2026 at 5pm ET. For detailed fellowship descriptions, eligibility requirements, and applications, please refer to the fellowship webpage; link available in our bio.
  • Visit the Earth Day Poster exhibition on the 6th Floor of Pratt Manhattan Center on 14th St! From optimism to urgency, the Earth Day Poster exhibition traces how artists and designers have visualized our relationship to the planet, shifting from celebration to warning.

In Happy Earth Day, New York (1992), Paula Scher transforms the Empire State Building into a sunflower, an emblem of a time when environmentalism felt hopeful. By contrast, Countdown to Mass Extinction (2022) by Winston Tseng grabs familiar pop imagery to expose the accelerating realities of climate collapse. Milton Glaser’s Give Earth a Chance (1970), echoing the fragile beauty of Earth from space, Seymour Chwast’s A Cloudy Morning Earth Day '95, where the gas mask becomes an unsettling everyday object, Amos Kennedy’s Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice (2018), centering environmental justice and inequality, Hans Erni’s Save Our Water (1961), an early, haunting vision of pollution’s consequences

Together, these works ask: What does Earth Day mean to you? ♻️

Organized by the School of Information Sustainability Committee.
  • The School of Information Health & Wellness Committee is organizing the first ever Pratt iSchool 5K on Wednesday, March 25th at 2pm. The run will start at PMC, take you a run down 14th St and Hudson River Park, loop around the Christopher St Pier, and finish back at PMC. The top three runners get a trophy and serious bragging rights. Walkers welcomed too!  Link available in our bio to register.

Image: Flyer with geographic oddities created by ai.pratt.edu
  • It's the School of Information March '26 newsletter with a faculty expansion in the area of Creative & Critical Computing and much more! Link available in our bio.

Image: Archives & Art Making Class visit to Pratt Institute Archives, Spring 2025. Photo by Dahlia Dandashi for PComm.
  • @prattischool got a guided tour of the @studiomuseum in Harlem yesterday. Thanks to our guide Manar, who is a senior painting student at Pratt!
  • Alum Vonetta Devonish (MSIXD '22), content designer and UX writer at JPMorgan Chase, is profile on Pratt.edu.  Link available in our bio.
  • Students in Information & Human Rights created projects investigating how information systems shape power, rights, and democratic life. Read all about it in this Pratt news article; link available in our bio.
  • Dean Anthony Cocciolo is quoted in a New York Times article on Preserving, Storing, and Digitizing Family Memories; link available in our bio.

Image: iStock/Yuriy Gluzhetsky
  • It's the School of Information February '26 newsletter with new books coming out, museum visits, and much more!  Link available in our bio.

Image: InfoShow25 with Adina Karp (MSLIS ‘26), May 16, 2025, photo by Dahlia Dandashi
Current Students - we are pleased to announce that we are now accepting fellowship applications for the 2026-2027 academic year! The fellowship program supports 2-semester practicum-internships that are designed to provide students with exceptional professional-level experience in NYC's great cultural institutions. The fellowships include:

Brooklyn Public Library Center for Brooklyn History Art & Artifact Collection Fellowship
Brooklyn Public Library Children’s & Young Adult Services Fellowship
Brooklyn Museum Archives Fellowship
Franklin Furnace Fellowship
Frick Art Research Library Fellowship
Lesbian Herstory Archives Fellowship
MoMA Library Fellowship
MoMA Archives Linked Open Data Fellowship
MoMA Product Design Fellowship 
Met Museum Watson Library Fellowship
Whitney Museum Digital Asset & Preservation Fellowship
Metropolitan Museum Data Analysis & Visualization for Collections Information Fellowship
Metropolitan Museum Digital Product Design Fellowship
Museum of the City of New York Digital Media Fellowship

Please note that the application deadline is Monday, April 6, 2026 at 5pm ET. For detailed fellowship descriptions, eligibility requirements, and applications, please refer to the fellowship webpage; link available in our bio.
Current Students - we are pleased to announce that we are now accepting fellowship applications for the 2026-2027 academic year! The fellowship program supports 2-semester practicum-internships that are designed to provide students with exceptional professional-level experience in NYC's great cultural institutions. The fellowships include: Brooklyn Public Library Center for Brooklyn History Art & Artifact Collection Fellowship Brooklyn Public Library Children’s & Young Adult Services Fellowship Brooklyn Museum Archives Fellowship Franklin Furnace Fellowship Frick Art Research Library Fellowship Lesbian Herstory Archives Fellowship MoMA Library Fellowship MoMA Archives Linked Open Data Fellowship MoMA Product Design Fellowship Met Museum Watson Library Fellowship Whitney Museum Digital Asset & Preservation Fellowship Metropolitan Museum Data Analysis & Visualization for Collections Information Fellowship Metropolitan Museum Digital Product Design Fellowship Museum of the City of New York Digital Media Fellowship Please note that the application deadline is Monday, April 6, 2026 at 5pm ET. For detailed fellowship descriptions, eligibility requirements, and applications, please refer to the fellowship webpage; link available in our bio.
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Visit the Earth Day Poster exhibition on the 6th Floor of Pratt Manhattan Center on 14th St! From optimism to urgency, the Earth Day Poster exhibition traces how artists and designers have visualized our relationship to the planet, shifting from celebration to warning.

In Happy Earth Day, New York (1992), Paula Scher transforms the Empire State Building into a sunflower, an emblem of a time when environmentalism felt hopeful. By contrast, Countdown to Mass Extinction (2022) by Winston Tseng grabs familiar pop imagery to expose the accelerating realities of climate collapse. Milton Glaser’s Give Earth a Chance (1970), echoing the fragile beauty of Earth from space, Seymour Chwast’s A Cloudy Morning Earth Day '95, where the gas mask becomes an unsettling everyday object, Amos Kennedy’s Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice (2018), centering environmental justice and inequality, Hans Erni’s Save Our Water (1961), an early, haunting vision of pollution’s consequences

Together, these works ask: What does Earth Day mean to you? ♻️

Organized by the School of Information Sustainability Committee.
Visit the Earth Day Poster exhibition on the 6th Floor of Pratt Manhattan Center on 14th St! From optimism to urgency, the Earth Day Poster exhibition traces how artists and designers have visualized our relationship to the planet, shifting from celebration to warning.

In Happy Earth Day, New York (1992), Paula Scher transforms the Empire State Building into a sunflower, an emblem of a time when environmentalism felt hopeful. By contrast, Countdown to Mass Extinction (2022) by Winston Tseng grabs familiar pop imagery to expose the accelerating realities of climate collapse. Milton Glaser’s Give Earth a Chance (1970), echoing the fragile beauty of Earth from space, Seymour Chwast’s A Cloudy Morning Earth Day '95, where the gas mask becomes an unsettling everyday object, Amos Kennedy’s Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice (2018), centering environmental justice and inequality, Hans Erni’s Save Our Water (1961), an early, haunting vision of pollution’s consequences

Together, these works ask: What does Earth Day mean to you? ♻️

Organized by the School of Information Sustainability Committee.
Visit the Earth Day Poster exhibition on the 6th Floor of Pratt Manhattan Center on 14th St! From optimism to urgency, the Earth Day Poster exhibition traces how artists and designers have visualized our relationship to the planet, shifting from celebration to warning.

In Happy Earth Day, New York (1992), Paula Scher transforms the Empire State Building into a sunflower, an emblem of a time when environmentalism felt hopeful. By contrast, Countdown to Mass Extinction (2022) by Winston Tseng grabs familiar pop imagery to expose the accelerating realities of climate collapse. Milton Glaser’s Give Earth a Chance (1970), echoing the fragile beauty of Earth from space, Seymour Chwast’s A Cloudy Morning Earth Day '95, where the gas mask becomes an unsettling everyday object, Amos Kennedy’s Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice (2018), centering environmental justice and inequality, Hans Erni’s Save Our Water (1961), an early, haunting vision of pollution’s consequences

Together, these works ask: What does Earth Day mean to you? ♻️

Organized by the School of Information Sustainability Committee.
Visit the Earth Day Poster exhibition on the 6th Floor of Pratt Manhattan Center on 14th St! From optimism to urgency, the Earth Day Poster exhibition traces how artists and designers have visualized our relationship to the planet, shifting from celebration to warning.

In Happy Earth Day, New York (1992), Paula Scher transforms the Empire State Building into a sunflower, an emblem of a time when environmentalism felt hopeful. By contrast, Countdown to Mass Extinction (2022) by Winston Tseng grabs familiar pop imagery to expose the accelerating realities of climate collapse. Milton Glaser’s Give Earth a Chance (1970), echoing the fragile beauty of Earth from space, Seymour Chwast’s A Cloudy Morning Earth Day '95, where the gas mask becomes an unsettling everyday object, Amos Kennedy’s Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice (2018), centering environmental justice and inequality, Hans Erni’s Save Our Water (1961), an early, haunting vision of pollution’s consequences

Together, these works ask: What does Earth Day mean to you? ♻️

Organized by the School of Information Sustainability Committee.
Visit the Earth Day Poster exhibition on the 6th Floor of Pratt Manhattan Center on 14th St! From optimism to urgency, the Earth Day Poster exhibition traces how artists and designers have visualized our relationship to the planet, shifting from celebration to warning.

In Happy Earth Day, New York (1992), Paula Scher transforms the Empire State Building into a sunflower, an emblem of a time when environmentalism felt hopeful. By contrast, Countdown to Mass Extinction (2022) by Winston Tseng grabs familiar pop imagery to expose the accelerating realities of climate collapse. Milton Glaser’s Give Earth a Chance (1970), echoing the fragile beauty of Earth from space, Seymour Chwast’s A Cloudy Morning Earth Day '95, where the gas mask becomes an unsettling everyday object, Amos Kennedy’s Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice (2018), centering environmental justice and inequality, Hans Erni’s Save Our Water (1961), an early, haunting vision of pollution’s consequences

Together, these works ask: What does Earth Day mean to you? ♻️

Organized by the School of Information Sustainability Committee.
Visit the Earth Day Poster exhibition on the 6th Floor of Pratt Manhattan Center on 14th St! From optimism to urgency, the Earth Day Poster exhibition traces how artists and designers have visualized our relationship to the planet, shifting from celebration to warning.

In Happy Earth Day, New York (1992), Paula Scher transforms the Empire State Building into a sunflower, an emblem of a time when environmentalism felt hopeful. By contrast, Countdown to Mass Extinction (2022) by Winston Tseng grabs familiar pop imagery to expose the accelerating realities of climate collapse. Milton Glaser’s Give Earth a Chance (1970), echoing the fragile beauty of Earth from space, Seymour Chwast’s A Cloudy Morning Earth Day '95, where the gas mask becomes an unsettling everyday object, Amos Kennedy’s Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice (2018), centering environmental justice and inequality, Hans Erni’s Save Our Water (1961), an early, haunting vision of pollution’s consequences

Together, these works ask: What does Earth Day mean to you? ♻️

Organized by the School of Information Sustainability Committee.
Visit the Earth Day Poster exhibition on the 6th Floor of Pratt Manhattan Center on 14th St! From optimism to urgency, the Earth Day Poster exhibition traces how artists and designers have visualized our relationship to the planet, shifting from celebration to warning.

In Happy Earth Day, New York (1992), Paula Scher transforms the Empire State Building into a sunflower, an emblem of a time when environmentalism felt hopeful. By contrast, Countdown to Mass Extinction (2022) by Winston Tseng grabs familiar pop imagery to expose the accelerating realities of climate collapse. Milton Glaser’s Give Earth a Chance (1970), echoing the fragile beauty of Earth from space, Seymour Chwast’s A Cloudy Morning Earth Day '95, where the gas mask becomes an unsettling everyday object, Amos Kennedy’s Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice (2018), centering environmental justice and inequality, Hans Erni’s Save Our Water (1961), an early, haunting vision of pollution’s consequences

Together, these works ask: What does Earth Day mean to you? ♻️

Organized by the School of Information Sustainability Committee.
Visit the Earth Day Poster exhibition on the 6th Floor of Pratt Manhattan Center on 14th St! From optimism to urgency, the Earth Day Poster exhibition traces how artists and designers have visualized our relationship to the planet, shifting from celebration to warning.

In Happy Earth Day, New York (1992), Paula Scher transforms the Empire State Building into a sunflower, an emblem of a time when environmentalism felt hopeful. By contrast, Countdown to Mass Extinction (2022) by Winston Tseng grabs familiar pop imagery to expose the accelerating realities of climate collapse. Milton Glaser’s Give Earth a Chance (1970), echoing the fragile beauty of Earth from space, Seymour Chwast’s A Cloudy Morning Earth Day '95, where the gas mask becomes an unsettling everyday object, Amos Kennedy’s Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice (2018), centering environmental justice and inequality, Hans Erni’s Save Our Water (1961), an early, haunting vision of pollution’s consequences

Together, these works ask: What does Earth Day mean to you? ♻️

Organized by the School of Information Sustainability Committee.
Visit the Earth Day Poster exhibition on the 6th Floor of Pratt Manhattan Center on 14th St! From optimism to urgency, the Earth Day Poster exhibition traces how artists and designers have visualized our relationship to the planet, shifting from celebration to warning.

In Happy Earth Day, New York (1992), Paula Scher transforms the Empire State Building into a sunflower, an emblem of a time when environmentalism felt hopeful. By contrast, Countdown to Mass Extinction (2022) by Winston Tseng grabs familiar pop imagery to expose the accelerating realities of climate collapse. Milton Glaser’s Give Earth a Chance (1970), echoing the fragile beauty of Earth from space, Seymour Chwast’s A Cloudy Morning Earth Day '95, where the gas mask becomes an unsettling everyday object, Amos Kennedy’s Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice (2018), centering environmental justice and inequality, Hans Erni’s Save Our Water (1961), an early, haunting vision of pollution’s consequences

Together, these works ask: What does Earth Day mean to you? ♻️

Organized by the School of Information Sustainability Committee.
Visit the Earth Day Poster exhibition on the 6th Floor of Pratt Manhattan Center on 14th St! From optimism to urgency, the Earth Day Poster exhibition traces how artists and designers have visualized our relationship to the planet, shifting from celebration to warning.

In Happy Earth Day, New York (1992), Paula Scher transforms the Empire State Building into a sunflower, an emblem of a time when environmentalism felt hopeful. By contrast, Countdown to Mass Extinction (2022) by Winston Tseng grabs familiar pop imagery to expose the accelerating realities of climate collapse. Milton Glaser’s Give Earth a Chance (1970), echoing the fragile beauty of Earth from space, Seymour Chwast’s A Cloudy Morning Earth Day '95, where the gas mask becomes an unsettling everyday object, Amos Kennedy’s Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice (2018), centering environmental justice and inequality, Hans Erni’s Save Our Water (1961), an early, haunting vision of pollution’s consequences

Together, these works ask: What does Earth Day mean to you? ♻️

Organized by the School of Information Sustainability Committee.
Visit the Earth Day Poster exhibition on the 6th Floor of Pratt Manhattan Center on 14th St! From optimism to urgency, the Earth Day Poster exhibition traces how artists and designers have visualized our relationship to the planet, shifting from celebration to warning. In Happy Earth Day, New York (1992), Paula Scher transforms the Empire State Building into a sunflower, an emblem of a time when environmentalism felt hopeful. By contrast, Countdown to Mass Extinction (2022) by Winston Tseng grabs familiar pop imagery to expose the accelerating realities of climate collapse. Milton Glaser’s Give Earth a Chance (1970), echoing the fragile beauty of Earth from space, Seymour Chwast’s A Cloudy Morning Earth Day '95, where the gas mask becomes an unsettling everyday object, Amos Kennedy’s Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice (2018), centering environmental justice and inequality, Hans Erni’s Save Our Water (1961), an early, haunting vision of pollution’s consequences Together, these works ask: What does Earth Day mean to you? ♻️ Organized by the School of Information Sustainability Committee.
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The School of Information Health & Wellness Committee is organizing the first ever Pratt iSchool 5K on Wednesday, March 25th at 2pm. The run will start at PMC, take you a run down 14th St and Hudson River Park, loop around the Christopher St Pier, and finish back at PMC. The top three runners get a trophy and serious bragging rights. Walkers welcomed too!  Link available in our bio to register.

Image: Flyer with geographic oddities created by ai.pratt.edu
The School of Information Health & Wellness Committee is organizing the first ever Pratt iSchool 5K on Wednesday, March 25th at 2pm. The run will start at PMC, take you a run down 14th St and Hudson River Park, loop around the Christopher St Pier, and finish back at PMC. The top three runners get a trophy and serious bragging rights. Walkers welcomed too! Link available in our bio to register. Image: Flyer with geographic oddities created by ai.pratt.edu
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It's the School of Information March '26 newsletter with a faculty expansion in the area of Creative & Critical Computing and much more! Link available in our bio.

Image: Archives & Art Making Class visit to Pratt Institute Archives, Spring 2025. Photo by Dahlia Dandashi for PComm.
It's the School of Information March '26 newsletter with a faculty expansion in the area of Creative & Critical Computing and much more! Link available in our bio. Image: Archives & Art Making Class visit to Pratt Institute Archives, Spring 2025. Photo by Dahlia Dandashi for PComm.
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@prattischool got a guided tour of the @studiomuseum in Harlem yesterday. Thanks to our guide Manar, who is a senior painting student at Pratt!
@prattischool got a guided tour of the @studiomuseum in Harlem yesterday. Thanks to our guide Manar, who is a senior painting student at Pratt!
@prattischool got a guided tour of the @studiomuseum in Harlem yesterday. Thanks to our guide Manar, who is a senior painting student at Pratt!
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Alum Vonetta Devonish (MSIXD '22), content designer and UX writer at JPMorgan Chase, is profile on Pratt.edu.  Link available in our bio.
Alum Vonetta Devonish (MSIXD '22), content designer and UX writer at JPMorgan Chase, is profile on Pratt.edu. Link available in our bio.
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Students in Information & Human Rights created projects investigating how information systems shape power, rights, and democratic life. Read all about it in this Pratt news article; link available in our bio.
Students in Information & Human Rights created projects investigating how information systems shape power, rights, and democratic life. Read all about it in this Pratt news article; link available in our bio.
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Dean Anthony Cocciolo is quoted in a New York Times article on Preserving, Storing, and Digitizing Family Memories; link available in our bio.

Image: iStock/Yuriy Gluzhetsky
Dean Anthony Cocciolo is quoted in a New York Times article on Preserving, Storing, and Digitizing Family Memories; link available in our bio. Image: iStock/Yuriy Gluzhetsky
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It's the School of Information February '26 newsletter with new books coming out, museum visits, and much more!  Link available in our bio.

Image: InfoShow25 with Adina Karp (MSLIS ‘26), May 16, 2025, photo by Dahlia Dandashi
It's the School of Information February '26 newsletter with new books coming out, museum visits, and much more! Link available in our bio. Image: InfoShow25 with Adina Karp (MSLIS ‘26), May 16, 2025, photo by Dahlia Dandashi
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