This document maps the transformation of the curriculum at the Division of Information and Library Studies at Masaryk University from 1991 to 2014. It shows how the curriculum has evolved from a focus on library science and scientific information to become an i-School with a broader focus on information studies. The curriculum has become more interdisciplinary over time, incorporating additional areas like informatics, data analytics, design, and educational technologies. Core courses now cover research methodology, legislation, and information organization, while specializations include information services, technologies, and data management. The transformation reflects the changing nature of the field from a focus on libraries to a broader perspective on information, people, and technology.

1. From Scientific Information
to i-School:
Mapping Transformation of
Curriculum
Prelect:
@MichalLorenz
Michal Lorenz
lorenz@mail.muni.cz
Division of Information and Library Studies
Masaryk University, Brno
http://kisk.phil.muni.cz/

2. Information Professional
Librarians? Documentalists?
Information Sciencist?

3. Division of Information studies and
Librarianship
Faculty of Arts
Masaryk University Brno
Bachelor studies Master Studies
390 students

4. Librarianship
Scientific
information
Information studies

5. Preliminary research - Comparative study
Objective: Mapping curriculum
- evolution of school profile
- planned curriculum
Method: Venn diagrams
- identify important areas of curriculum
- evaluation of interdisciplinarity

6. 3 dimensions of discipline
scientific x practical
x study

7. Study fields
Library Science
(1) Books
(3) People
(5) Libraries
Information Studies (2) Information (3)
People
(4) Technology

8. 1991
Under-
graduate

9. 1991 Undergraduate
1 - Introduction to Bibliology
1 - Palaeography
15 - Science of documents
2 - Theoretical Foundations of Information Systems
3 - Social Communication
3 - Wine growing culture
3 – Etnochoreology
3 - German Literature 1790 – 1900
4 - Work with Personal Computer
4- Information Technology
5 - Social Informatics

10. 1991
Graduate

11. 1998
Under-
graduate

12. 1998 Undergraduate
1 - History of Printing
24 - Fundamentals of Informatics and Cybernetics
3 - Philosophy 2
3 - General History 2
3 - Basics of Auxiliary Historical Sciences
5 - Introduction to Librarianship and Scientific
Information
5 - Bibliographic and Retrieval Languages

13. 1998
Graduate

14. 1998 Graduate
1 - Introduction to Archival Science
15 – Bibliopedagogy
15 - Services, readers and users
2 - Information Systems Management
2 - Data, Database Organization
2 - Internet Services
24 - Introduction to Computational Linguistics
5 - Internship in the Library

15. 2001
Bachelor

16. 2001 Bachelor
24 - Information systems design
245 - Digital Libraries
25 - Foundations of librarianship and information
science
3 - General Psychology
3 - General Pedagogy
3 - Rhetoric - Aspects of language cultivation (An
introduction)
5 - Information Retrieval Languages
5 - AACR2 a UNIMARC
5 - Management of libraries and information centers

17. 2001
Master

18. 2001 Master
2 - Nature and culture 2
23 - Information, communication and thinking 3 –
Social Psychology
23 - Psychology of masmedia
25 - Learning Society and Role of Librarians 2
3 - The Anglo-Saxon pedagogy
3 - Research in cognitive Psychology

19. 2005
Bachelor

20. 2005 Bachelor
2 - Information Science 2
23 - Information Collections and Services
35 - Intellectual property and Information Activity
2 - Ethical and Philosophical Foundations of
Information Science
4 - Work With Pictorial Information
4 - Computer Literacy 2
5 - Library Systems and Standards
5 - Reference Services 3

21. i-School curriculum 2014
Balcheor specializations:
Information Services
Information Technologies
Information and Documents Organization
Information Science

22. 2014
Bachelor
-
Core

23. 2014 Bachelor - Core
25 - Research project
25 - Internship
25 - Research methodology in Information Science and
Librarianship
25 - Legislation in the information environment
25 - Information Organization
3 - Presentation Skills
3 - Communication Skills
3 - Teamwork
3 - Time management
5 - History of Libraries and Librarianship

24. 2014
Bachelor

25. 2014 Bachelor
2 - Scientometrics
2 - Philosophy of Information
4 - Basics programming
4 - Online Services Mashups
45 - New technologies in libraries
5 - Protection of cultural heritage
5 - Acquisition of Documents and Information
5 - Metadata
5 - Cataloguing
5 - Marketing of Library and Information Centers

26. i-School curriculum 2014
Master specializations:
Information and Data Management
Information Service Design
Technologies in Education

27. 2014
Master
-
Core

28. 2014 Master - Core
2 - Information, Communication and Thinking
2 - Information Management
2 - Knowledge Organization
2 - Information Retrieval
23 - Learning Society
25 - Application Seminar 1
25 - Application Seminar 2
25 - Research Seminar

29. 2014
Master

30. 2014 Master
24 - Tools and Methods of Data Analytics
34 - Digital Marketing Strategy
24 - Web Analytics
24 - Basics of Algorithmic Thinking
23 - Service Design
234 - Design and Innovation
24 - Educational Technologies
34 - Laboratory of Educational Technology
234 - Design of the Educationnal Process

31. Master 1998 x 2014

32. What next?

33. Literature
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34. Questions?
lorenz@mail.muni.cz
Thank you for you attention!