PARMA UNIVERSITY
Presented by
Anna Maria Tammaro,
with the collaboration
of Florica Campeanu

From middle ages…

To the Renaissance…

Today…
 200.000
habitants

Parma University
 The centuries-old
history of university
education in Parma is
documented in a
'Diploma', dated 13th
March 962, conferred
on the Bishop of Parma
Uberto by Emperor
Ottonian I
 Today: 30,000 students,
with more than 5,000
graduates per year,
1.100 lecturers, and
1000 technical and
administrative
employees

Parma University Faculties,
Departments, and Libraries
 13 Scientific, Technological, and Umanistic Faculties
 42 Specialised Departments
 1124 Professors and Researchers
 36 Libraries of faculties and departments
 Integrated Library System, OPAC, and Open Search
 Digital Library: 4812 Current e-Journals,
10000 Digitised Periodicals, 70 Data Banks, 130 e-books, E-
dictionaries, etc.
 Repository DSpaceUniPr: Doctoral and MSc theses, Congress
Proceedings, Serials, Preprints, Learning materials, Research
reports

LIS Courses in Parma -
graduate
 Bachelor degree (180 credits = 3 years of study) in
“Written and hipertextual communication”
http://www.unipr.it/ects.php
?info=Guidaateneo&tipo=corso0809&ID=0244&lang=en
 Learning objectives:
 Understand the problems related to legal, social, economical
and technological issues affecting the digital publishing.
 Assess the quality and value of digital publishing .
 Develop their information skills, writing skills, group working
and presentation skills.
 Identify different types of electronic publishing available on
the Web and their different functions.

LIS Courses in Parma -
Postgraduate
 Master degree (1st level) in “Information
management in a digital environment” (120 credits
on top of a bachelor degree)
http://www.unipr.it/ects.php
?info=Guidaateneo&tipo=corso0809&ID=0461&lang=en
 Learning objectives:
 Make complex evaluations on the legal, social, economical and technological
issues related to the Digital Library and Digital Archives
 Apply their knowledge to a complex context as the e-book in the digital
library.
 Master basic information skills for accessing and using information in an
independent way.
 Demonstrate writing skills and group presentation skills.


LIS Courses in Parma – Postgraduate
International Courses – in English
 International Master degree (2° level) in information
studies, jointly developed with the Northumbria
University at Newcastle, by distance (120 credits on
top of a Master degree of 1st level) – from 2000 till
2009
 http://www.unipr.it/arpa/benicult/biblio/master/index.htm
 Continuing professional development, by distance -
from 2009
 Two main themes:
 Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
 Libraries and learning

LIS Courses in Parma – Postgraduate
International Courses – in English
 International Master Digital Library Learning (Master 1° level)
with Oslo Univ. College (coord.), Tallinn University.
 http://dill.hio.no/
 To gain knowledge of digital librarianship through studying the
cutting edge of digital library research as well as real world
applications and best practices.
 To develop research skills through supervised independent
research projects within the digital environment, using relevant
methods and analytical approaches.
 To understand the impact of digital environments on the role of
information professionals in the knowledge society.
 Erasmus Mundus Scholarship
http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/mundus/projects/index_en.html

LIS Courses in Parma –
Learning & teaching
 Blended learning
 DOCEO
 MOODLE
 Videorecording of lessons
 CONNECT PRO ADOBE

LIS Research in Parma
 R&D activities have been devoted to the
Digital Library and Digitisation applied
research, with particular emphasis on
organisational and socio-economic
issues
 Curriculum development for Digital Library
 Learning and Digital Library : the research aims to analyse
the impact on learning of Digital Library
 Electronic publishing, Digitisation

Recent financed LIS Projects
 European Commission
 MINERVA Project
http://www.minervaeurope.org/
 European LIS curriculum project: Content, reflections and curricular
questions
http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Dec-06/EuropeanLIS.pdf
 IFLA http://www.ifla.org/VII/s23/index.htm
 Feasibility of International Guidelines for Equivalency and
Reciprocity of Qualifications for LIS Professionals. Final report
by Terry L. Weech and Anna Maria Tammaro
(November 2008)
 Survey on quality assurance models in Library and Information
Science (LIS) programs
By Anna Maria Tammaro on behalf of IFLA's Education and
Training Section (2005)