Is LIS competition healthy? The most important issue in California's competing LIS programs.(blatant berry)( Library and Information Science)

KEN HAYCOCK STARTED IT. THE PROFESSOR AND outgoing director of the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at San Jose State University (SJSU), CA, severed the relationship between the school and the California Library Association (CLA). At issue was an agreement between CLA and Drexd University Online's I School (slis.notlong.com).

Drexel has partnered with library groups all over the United States, but Haycock feels that in addition to neglecting his students, CLA allowed Drexel to invade SJSU's California turf, breaking a perceived CLA promise not to do so. Everyone knows the SJSU SLIS has the largest enrollment of any U.S. or Canadian LIS program. It is a totally …