Accredited by the American Library Association, Texas Woman's University's online M.L.S. degree prepares professionals to work in academic, public, school and corporate libraries. The program is 36 credit hours with required course work in information organization and retrieval, information and communication technology, foundations of library and information studies, library management, collection development, and information sources and services.
Drexel University offers an entirely online Master of Library and Information Science with six optional concentrations in digital libraries, school library media, youth services, archival studies, competitive intelligence and knowledge management, and library and information services. "U.S. News and World Report" named Drexel’s iSchool, College of Information Science and Technology, one of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” The program is 15 courses long, organized in 10-week quarters, and it is ALA-accredited.
Ranked in the top 20 programs in the United States by "U.S. News and World Report," Kent State University’s Master of Library and Information Science program is the only ALA-accredited program in Ohio. Students may pursue a general degree in library and information science online or specialize in one of the following areas: academic librarianship, archival or special collections librarianship, cataloging or metadata, children’s librarianship, digital preservation, digital librarianship and digital initiatives, library management, museum studies, public librarianship, reference librarianship, special librarianship or young adult librarianship.
San Jose State University offers an ALA-accredited Master of Library and Information Science program online, including the convocation. Full time, The program completion takes 12 months, though the average student takes 2.5 to 3.5 years and has up to seven years. The program encourages students to participate in one over 200 virtual and place-based internship opportunities each semester while taking the required courses in online social networking, information and society, information retrieval, information organizations and management and research methods.