There are two required residencies a year, a week in San José at the beginning of each August and one week during the annual conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) in January. These are the known dates (subject to change):
2010 January 12-15 (ALISE, Boston)
2010 August 2-6 (San Jose)
2011 January 4-7 (ALISE, San Diego)
2011 August 1-5 (San Jose)
2012 January 17-20 (ALISE, Dallas)
2012 August 6-10 (San Jose)
2013 January 22-25 (ALISE, Seattle)

The San José cohort includes required expectations in support of the conduct of research and preparation of the dissertation. Each year is structured as follows:

Preliminary

Doctoral Student Advanced Technology Workshop.

Year One

Seminars, reading courses and projects, including advanced library research methods and socialization to the academic world of research and scholarship.

Deliverables:

Formal review at four months (December)
Preliminary proposal
Literature review
Formal annual review

Year Two

Seminars, reading courses and projects, including public presentations and defense, work-in-progress and doctoral poster sessions and continued structured socialization to the academic world of research and scholarship

Deliverables:

Refined research proposal with literature review and methodology
Formal annual review

The confirmation of candidature takes place at the end of 24 months, or the end of Year Two. This requires documentation of progress, and as a minimum the literature review, and a seminar presentation on the topic proposed for investigation. The first three chapters for the dissertation (introduction; literature review; methodology and pilot; plan for progress) may be presented at this time or at the end of Year Three. Confirmation of candidature takes place in San José in August and results in confirmation as a Ph.D. student at QUT.

Year Three

Seminars in which faculty and candidates present critical studies of selected problems; independent study or reading courses under faculty supervision; research projects conducted under faculty supervision with greater focus on the dissertation topic; research fora will model the dissertation defense.

By the end of Year Three the candidate will have submitted at least one substantive research project for review.

Year Four To Six

It is expected that San José faculty and doctoral candidates will engage in co-teaching and collaborative research, from grant preparation to publication, over the course of the six years.

Doctoral candidates will also attend seminars and presentations on the role of the faculty member in higher education, curriculum design and course development and pedagogy in higher education.

The student orientation will be held in August in San José. Students will then meet once each year in August in San José for one week and once each year in January for one week during the annual conference on the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). Students will be expected to contributed to ALISE work-in-progress and doctoral poster sessions. For specific dates, see above.

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