University of Washington’s LIS Forward Discussion Sessions: Internal Summaries

Abstract

The Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives (CALMA) at the University of Washington (UW) Information School facilitated a series of discussion sessions in response to the LIS Forward position paper, Ensuring a Vibrant Future for LIS in iSchools. These included two UW iSchool faculty discussion sessions (April & May 2024), a UW Libraries forum (January 2025), and a roundtable featuring UW iSchool faculty, research scientists, staff, and PhD students (April 2025). This report provides summaries of each of these internal discussion sessions.