Information Studies and New Media

Studies: Current Situation at IISL

and View into the Future

Barbora Drobíková

Charles University in Prague

Faculty of Arts

Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship

Short history of IISL

1st half of the 20th century – librarian courses

1950 - a two year study programme of librarianship was

established

1952 – Institute of Librarianship at the Faculty of Arts

1967 - Institute of Librarianship and Scientific

Information

◦ research project - the system of scientific, technical and

economic information

cont.

70th and 80th – normalization

90th – revolution, changes, abroad experience

1993 – Institute of Information Studies and

Librarianship (IISL)

1996 – doctoral study programme – Information

Science

Study programmes at IISL

bachelor programme

two master programmes

doctoral programme

continuous education

◦ courses for public, seniors

◦ webinars

Bachelor programme

three-year single-subject programme

broad basic LIS education

librarian skills, information systems, information technologies, information economics

strenghthening of informatics and information science◦ new subjects: information ethics, information services,

information technologies

Master programmes

two-years single-subject programmes

Information Studies and Librarianship

◦ specializations: information s., librarian s., book culture

New Media Studies

ISL – information s.

oriented to commercial sphere and scientific

information centers

intersections with the librarian s. – digitization, digital

libraries, information technologies

low number of students

ISL – librarian s.

orientation to public libraries and academic libraries

intersections with the information s. and with the

book culture s.

◦ digital libraries, preservation of cultural heritage,

information technologies etc.

relatively a stable number of students

ISL – book culture s.

other memory institutions

oriented to historical aspects of publishing,

literature, script, rare books etc.

intersections with librarian s.

very low number of students

New Media Studies -NMS

established 2005

(disobedient) younger sibling of ILS has matured

three main pillars:

◦ game studies – interactive design

◦ visual culture (philosophy and art)

◦ digital humanities

including programming, information science, social media studies,

data visualization, HCI, data management etc.

What to do with our master programmes

Information Science from three points of

view

IS in the information society

◦ NMS

IS in libraries and information institutions

◦ ILS

IS in another memory institutions

◦ Book Culture Studies

NMS

represents information science in information

society

accreditation now in process

◦ single-subject programme

◦ double-subject programme

ILS

no specializations

change of curricula

enhancement with new digital competencies (e-

research and scholarly communication) according to

COAR; digitization and preservation skills etc.

accreditation process – probably in 2016

intersections with NMS are expected

Book Culture only a double-subject programme

◦ combination with another discipline (history, languages,

history of art etc.)

shared with another institute at our faculty (dividing

of financial costs)

accreditation process – 2017?

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