Draft:AKibombo/sandbox/East African School Of Library And Information Science

The East African School Of Library And Information Science (abbr. EASLIS) is a school under the College of Computing and Information Sciences of Makerere University that provides higher education in the field of library and information science. It is based in Kampala, Uganda. It is a member of iSchools, a consortium directed to understanding the role of information in nature and human culture.

History
In 1959, after being commissioned to write a report on the state of librarianship in East Africa, Sidney Hockey came up with the recommendation to start a school of librarianship.With financial assistance from UNESCO, it was established in 1963 as the East African School of Librarianship (EASL) at the then Makerere University College, a constituent college of the University of East Africa  .It was meant to be a regional library school to train the library personnel from the countries of Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika ,Zanzibar and Mauritius. In 1995, its name was changed to East African School of Library and Information Science to reflect the component of Information Science.

After the, the EASL ceased

Programming and academic programmes
EASL started by offering 2 academic programmes - a Certificate

Library and Information Science
The school introduced an undergraduate degree course in library and information science in 1989. EASLIS further introduced a PhD in Information Science programme in 2004

Records and Archives Management
In 1999, EASLIS started offering a Diploma in Records and Archives Management and later in 2009, a bachelors program in the same discipline