Blaise Cronin (born 1949) is an Irish-American information scientist and bibliometrician.
 He is Rudy Professor Emeritus of Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he was Dean of the School of Library and Information Science for seventeen years.
 From 1985-1991 he held the Chair of Information Science and was Head of the Department of Information Science at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, U.K.
The Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) is the master's degree that is required for most professional librarian positions in the United States and Canada.
 The MLIS is a relatively recent degree; an older and still common degree designation for librarians to acquire is the Master of Library Science (MLS), or Master of Science in Library Science (MSLS) degree.
 According to the American Library Association (ALA), "The master’s degree in library and information studies is frequently referred to as the MLS; however, ALA-accredited degrees have various names such as Master of Information Studies, Master of Information, Master of Arts, Master of Librarianship, Master of Library and Information Studies, or Master of Science.
 The degree name is determined by the program.
 The [ALA] Committee for Accreditation evaluates programs based on their adherence to the Standards for Accreditation of Master's Programs in Library and Information Studies, not based on the name of the degree."
Library and information science (LIS) (sometimes given as the plural library and information sciences) or as "library and information studies" is a merging of library science and information science.
 The joint term is associated with schools of library and information science (abbreviated to "SLIS").
 In the last part of the 1960s, schools of librarianship, which generally developed from professional training programs (not academic disciplines) to university institutions during the second half of the 20th century, began to add the term "information science" to their names.
 The first school to do this was at the University of Pittsburgh in 1964.
 More schools followed during the 1970s and 1980s, and by the 1990s almost all library schools in the USA had added information science to their names.
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Illinois.
 Founded in 1867 as a land-grant institution in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana, it is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system and a founding member of the Big Ten Conference.
Christine L. Borgman is Distinguished Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA.
 She is the author of more than 200 publications in the fields of information studies, computer science, and communication.
 Both of her sole-authored monographs, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (MIT Press, 2007) and From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2000), have won the Best Information Science Book of the Year award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
 She is a lead investigator for the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center, where she conducts data practices research.
 She chaired the Task Force on Cyberlearning for the NSF, whose report, Fostering Learning in the Networked World, was released in July, 2008.
 Prof. Borgman is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Legacy Laureate of the University of Pittsburgh, and is the 2011 recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award from the Coalition for Networked Information, Association for Research Libraries, and EDUCAUSE.
 The award recognizes notable, lasting achievements in the creation and innovative use of information resources and services that advance scholarship and intellectual productivity through communication networks.
 She is also the 2011 recipient of the Research in Information Science Award from the American Association of Information Science and Technology.
 In 2013 she became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Shifra Baruchson-Arbib (born 1951) is a Full Professor in the Department of Information Science at Bar-Ilan University Israel, specializing in the history and sociology of media.
 She was the Head of the Information Science Department (1990-1998, 2005-2008, 2012–2014) and has served as the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Bar- Ilan University (2015-2016).
 Her major achievements include her studies in the fields of the "History of Hebrew Books and Manuscripts" and of "Information Science", leading the Department of Information Science; and developing the academic field of Social Information Science.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS), is a school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offering a bachelor's degree in information science, master's degrees in library science and information science, and a doctoral degree in information and library science as well as an undergraduate minor, graduate certificate programs, and a post-masters certificate.
 The school was founded by Louis Round Wilson and opened in the fall of 1931.
 Currently, the "U.S. News & World Report" ranks the School of Information and Library Science second among information and library science programs nationwide.
Jesus Lau (Ph.D.) is an active contributor to the fields of information science and library and information science since 1977, his research focuses on information literacy and the development of information competencies.
 He is an active member of several organizations related to the library field, such as the American Library Association, the Mexican Library Association, the Border Regional Library Association, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), and the Special Libraries Association.
 He has facilitated nearly 150 courses, including workshops and seminars on library and information science, with special emphasis on information literacy and management and leadership at several institutions in Botswana, Brazil, Colombia, Estonia, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, USA, Venezuela, among others.
Abdul Alkalimat (born Gerald Arthur McWorter, November 21, 1942) is an American professor of African-American studies and library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
 He is the author of several books, including "Introduction to Afro-American Studies", "The African American Experience in Cyberspace", and "Malcolm X for Beginners".
 He curates two websites related to African-American history, "Malcolm X: A Research Site" and "eBlack Studies".
The Palmer School of Library and Information Science of Long Island University offers a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science.
 According to its Graduate Bulletin, the school was founded on the campus of C.W. Post University in 1959.
 Its MSLIS degree was first accredited in 1971 by the American Library Association .
 In 1992, Palmer's Master's degrees in Library and in Information Science were merged into one degree.
 Courses were first offered in Manhattan in 1995 and its doctoral program accepted its first students in 1997.
 The Palmer School is the only full member of the iSchools consortium in the metropolitan New York City area and has the largest enrollment of masters students in library and information science in the state of New York.

Question: Abdul Alkalimat is a professor of African-American studies and library and information science at a university founded in which year ?
Answer: 1867