Contact information:
The Royal School of
Library and Information
Science
Birketinget 6
2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
tlf: +45 32 58 60 66
Web site: www.db.dk
| The Royal School of Library and Information Science is a distinguished, internationally recognised educational and research institution. Its activities are centred on two locations in Denmark: a School on Amager in Copenhagen and a Branch in Aalborg. As a government-funded university-level institution, the Royal School of Library and Information Science is responsible to the Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs for education, research and development in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS). The School has its own premises, operates on its own and does not form part of a university. The total number of students enrolled at the Royal School of Library and Information Science is about 1,000. The School has some 70 full-time academic staff distributed between three in-house departments: Information Studies, Library and Information Management, and Culture and Media. The school offers students the opportunity to study a 3 year B.Sc., 2 year Master, 1 year Master (two-streamed) or 3 year PhD programme in Library and Information Science, as well as a 3½ year degree in Librarianship. As from 2005, a 1 year Master with modules in English will be offered as well. The strategic priorities defined for the Royal School of Library and Information Science express a general intention to interconnect tradition and innovation, past and future, with a view to formulating a new coherent academic profile for the School as a whole. The central feature of this new profile will be the effort to further develop the special Nordic tradition, which combines the classic disciplines of documentation, information handling and mediation of culture. Since 1994 the Royal School of Library and Information Science has been co-operating with another institution in the Øresund University, Lund University in Sweden (The Department of Library and Information Science). Collaboration covers such areas as exchanging of teaching capacity and joint courses for PhD-students. In the field of Library and Information Science (LIS) the School aims to serve as a leading academic centre, nationally as well as internationally, providing research-based undergraduate and postgraduate education as well as continuing professional education. Enriched by an attractive teaching and learning environment, academic degree programmes in LIS as well as continuing professional education initiatives should encourage and stimulate academic absorption and creativity and prepare committed players for the information and knowledge society determined to pass on the identity-developing cultural values in society. |
