Candy Schwartz

Current

• Professor at Simmons College GSLIS

Education

• Syracuse University
• McGill University
• McGill University

• Simmons College

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Connections

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Industry

Libraries

Websites

• My Website

Candy Schwartz’s Summary

I have been helping to create new librarians for more than a quarter of a century. In addition to teaching, I coordinate doctoral studies at Simmons GSLIS, am co-editor of Library & Information Science Research, a well-regarded peer-reviewed journal.

Candy Schwartz’s Specialties:

My teaching areas include organization, cataloguing, classification, indexing, digital libraries, Web design, and related topics.

Candy Schwartz’s Experience

• Professor

  Simmons College GSLIS

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 1980 — Present (28 years 5 months)

  I am a faculty member of the Graduate School of Library & Information Science at Simmons. I currently teach in the areas of information organization, bibliographic control, subjecy analysis, thesauri and taxonomies, and digital libraries. I am also Coordinator of Doctoral Studies.

Candy Schwartz’s Education

• Syracuse University

  PhD, Information Studies, 1977 — 1986

• McGill University

  MLS, Library and Information Science, 1972 — 1974

• McGill University

  BA, Linguistics, 1964 — 1969

• Simmons College

Additional Information

Candy Schwartz’s Websites:

• My Website

Candy Schwartz’s Interests:

classification, metadata, indexing, travel, Celtic music, Middle-earth

Candy Schwartz’s Groups:

American Society for information Science and Technology, Association for Library and Informatuion Science Education, Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Information Retrieval, Zoo New England

Candy Schwartz’s Honors:

Outstanding Information Science Teacher (American Society for Information Science), Watson Davis Award (American Society for Information Science and Technology)