WISE has recently been recognized in several broadly distributed publications. We wish to extend our thanks to the authors.

Ellen Detlefsen Associate Professor with the Library and Information Science Program at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences encourages readers of the Journal of the Medical Library Association to look at WISE schools to pursue their Masters in Library Science.

She writes, “Choosing a program from a school that is a member of the Web-based Information Science Education (WISE) consortium is also a wise idea. This consortium of 14 LIS programs and i-Schools allows students to register for online classes from partner schools at the home tuition rate. Several of the WISE schools regularly offer a range of health sciences librarianship courses that are not routinely offered in other LIS schools. Also a sophisticated model for moving staff from nonprofessional to professional careers has been tried at Vanderbilt University. Three staff members at the Eskind Biomedical Library, while working in nonprofessional positions, completed two years of online education in the University of Pittsburgh FastTrack MLIS program, followed by a formal post-master's internship year. Staff members from two other academic health sciences libraries and one from a large hospital library are now following a similar path.”

The full text of the article is available at https://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1852634

Dr. Detlefsen also published a front-page article in the May 2007 issue of Medical Library Association (MLA) News entitled "Earning a Master's Degree via Distance Education" that also mentions WISE.  Members of the Medical Library Association may access this article online.

Detlefsen has taught several courses for WISE, including Health Sciences Resources and Services, Applications in Medical Informatics, and Health Consumer Information Sources & Services (team taught with Mary Jo Dorsey, Doctoral Student and Adjunct Faculty, also at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences ). 

In addition, Rae Anne Montague, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Marina Pluzhenskaia, a doctoral student, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, recently published "Web-based Information Science Education (WISE): Collaboration to explore and expand quality in LIS online education" in the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 48(1), (pp. 36-51).