About Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies

The Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba, undertakes various types of research in the fields of library and information science and information-media studies, with a focus on the whole soft infrastructure for circulating knowledge and information, which is the indispensable base for human intellectual and creative activities.

In today's society, the information network plays a vital role in the circulation and use of knowledge and information, to which traditional books, materials, and academic literature have made a massive contribution. The importance of information in multi-media forms is increasing. While the information network has become a place similar to a huge library from which we can obtain knowledge and information, we must develop new library functions to allow us to find exactly the information we require from a huge amount of data in the information network. In these circumstances, we conduct a wide range of interdisciplinary research on information and media as the fundamental technology for all academic fields. This research includes such features as an approach dealing with the content of information and an approach from the users' viewpoint, which places emphasis on kansei (feelings).

The Graduate School (doctoral program) consists of two parts: an initial two-year master's program (first stage) and a continuing three-year doctoral program (second stage), and it nurtures academic researchers and highly skilled specialists.

Doctoral Program in Library, Information and Media Studies