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The paper deals with the curricula of master programs taught at IILS (Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles University, Faculty of Arts). IILS offers two master programs: New Media Studies (NMS) and Information Studies and Librarianship (ISL). ISL traditionally follows the bachelor program with the same name taught at IILS although it is expected that the program is studied not only by bachelors from IILS. Everybody who has a bachelor degree from any discipline can study this program. The master program ILS is possible to study in three various specializations – information specialization, librarian or book culture one. The master program NMS started in 2005 as an independent program offering new views on information science dealing with digital culture and art, new media technologies, social networks and their analysis, information systems design etc. Students of this program come from various bachelor programs (art, film, informatics, languages etc.). Today we have a problem with content covering of taught subjects and students are more interested in NMS than in information specialization of ILS. The librarian specialization keeps a stable amount of students, the book culture one has to be upgraded and quite basically changed. The paper asks the question if it is possible to make the curricula of both programs more effective and tries to show the path to an upgrade of all master programs at IILS.
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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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