The Palmer School of Library and Information Science is part of Long Island University in New York, United States and offers a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science. According to its Graduate Bulletin, the school was founded on the campus of C.W. Post University in 1959. Its MSLIS degree was first accredited in 1971 by the American Library Association. In 1992, Palmer's master's degrees in Library and in Information Science were merged into one degree. Courses were first offered in Manhattan in 1995 and its doctoral program accepted its first students in 1997. The Palmer School is the only full member of the iSchools consortium in the metropolitan New York City area and has the largest enrollment of masters students in library and information science in the state of New York.
