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.

1. 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

2. 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

3. cont.
 70th and 80th – normalization
 90th – revolution, changes, abroad experience
 1993 – Institute of Information Studies and
Librarianship (IISL)
 1996 – doctoral study programme – Information
Science

4. Study programmes at IISL
 bachelor programme
 two master programmes
 doctoral programme
 continuous education
◦ courses for public, seniors
◦ webinars

5. 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

6. Master programmes
 two-years single-subject programmes
 Information Studies and Librarianship
◦ specializations: information s., librarian s., book culture
 New Media Studies

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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.

11. What to do with our master programmes

12. 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

13. NMS
 represents information science in information
society
 accreditation now in process
◦ single-subject programme
◦ double-subject programme

14. 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

15. 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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