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Institution:
Royal School of
Library and Information Science
Copenhagen
Address:
Royal School of Library and Information Science
Birketinget 6
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
Tel +45 32 58 60 66
Fax +45 32 84 02 01
Department of Continuing Education and Consultancy
Tel +45
32 58 60 66
Contact person:
Gitte Larsen
(Head of Dept. of Continuing Education and Consultancy)
Postal address:
Birketinget 6 - DK-2300 Copenhagen S
Tel.: + 45 32 58 60 66, Direct tel. +45 32 34 13 12
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The Royal School of Library and Information Science is a higher
education institution responsible to the Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs for education, research
and development in the field of library and information science (LIS).
The Royal
School is situated in Copenhagen, with a branch in Aalborg, Jutland.
In 2001 the School launched a comprehensive 60-hour elective course
on “Libraries, learning and information literacy” in order to stress the
teaching role of thelibrarian. Moreover, students in their final term were offered a
10-hour workshop focused on the library's teaching role.
Department of
Continuing Education and Consultancy
Each year many employees from public and academic
libraries as well as from private companies and organisations attend the
continuing education, short educational courses, seminars and one-day events
organised by the School.
In the
last years, the Department has run many short courses focused on IL aspects and
the pedagogical role of the librarian.
More
than 220 training courses are offered every year in all subjects of
relevance to the library sector in Denmark:
·
Library management
·
Information Retrieval
·
Knowledge Organization
·
Communication
·
Theory of education
·
Marketing
·
New media
·
Webdesign
Training
courses
They aim at
matching the needs of librarians and information specialists. There are
different kinds of courses:
· 1- or
2-days training courses
·
workshops and conferences
·
individually customized courses for external customers.
The typical customers are:
·
public libraries
·
academic libraries
·
public and private organisations
·
private companies.
The main
objective is to identify the needs for new skills and competencies for all kinds
of library employees and thus to meet the needs of the libraries.
Detailed information
about the courses are available in Danish only.
Information
searching courses - 2007
Consultancy
Consultancy and advisory tasks are offered to libraries and
private companies in areas, such as:
·
Development of virtual and IT-related library services
·
Library development
· User
studies
·
Strategic development of new skills and competences
· Marketing, dissemination and organisation
development
· Knowledge
Organization and structuring.
Other initiatives
at the
Royal School of Library and Information
Science:
·
Event
-
LIS Education
in Europe: Joint Curriculum Development and Bologna Perspectives
·
Royal School of
Library and Information Science – tutorial
·
Research programme:
Studies of interactive information retrieval and seeking
·
Library instruction at the Royal School of Library and
Information Science Library
Keywords:
training
for library employees - continuing professional education
for information specialists – pedagogy for librarians - librarians'
teaching role -
user studies – information literacy – library development - European LIS
education - information seaching - information retrieval - new skills and
competences for information professionals |
