LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
MASTER'S PROGRAMME

 
PROGRAMME LAUNCH

GENERIC

  • Aptitude for critical and analytical thinking, reasoning, judging and problem solving
  • Skills to use IT and communication technologies, ability to retrieve, process and analyse information from a wide range of information sources
  • Use communication, collaboration, organisation, and leadership skills
  • Understanding of basic concepts in Librarianship, Information Technologies and Information Science

SUBJECT SPECIFIC

  • Knowledge about digital libraries, Machine Readable Cataloguing rules, interaction of IT and Digital Libraries, its components and application
  • Skills to manage access to electronic information resources
  • Skills to digitise and maintain collections, as well as archival records, for online access.
  • Understanding the structure of tags, fields and subfields
  • Techniques in importing and exporting data in machine-readable format
  • Ability to understand the structure of internet protocols and domains
  • Fundamental knowledge about types of network models
  • Theoretical and practical skills in library information networks, its design and management
  • Ability TO operatE with HTML, CSS and Javascript programming languages
  • Ability to design and develop simple-structured websites
  • Knowledge and comprehension of web programming and programming languages (PHP web programming language in Drupal 6 content management system)
  • Basic knowledge about e-learning, understanding how to create, manage and operate virtual learning environment
  • Skills in long-term build-up, management and maintenance of document collections, IT skills needed for document processing
  • Ability in long term preservation and digitisation of cultural heritage, to get familiar with open access modes for scientific publishing system and digital technologies for publishing
  • Skills in creating and managing databases
  • Skills in constructing comprehensive bibliographical databases and understanding modern approaches for design
  • Practical skills in cataloguing and classification
  • Understanding of basic norms and provisions about intellectual property rights and copyright issues .
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Master's programme with specialization in Library and information sources was launched in International Scientific-Educational Center of NAS , in 2009, in the frame of Tempus 145021 -Tempus-2008UK- JPCR international project designed by Eurounion.
 
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Programmes name and specialization code Library and information sources - 07150
University  International Scientific-Educational Center of NAS of RA
Awarded degree Master's degree in Library and Information Science
Programme's launch academic year 2009-2010
Instruction language Armenian
Study mode Part-time
Programme duration 2.5 years՝
(5 semesters)
Tuition fee- RA citizens Per year-
250 000 drams,
total-
625 000drams
Tuition fee- International applicants Per years-
400 000 drams,
total-՝
1 000 000drams
 

Address՝ Republic of Armenia, Yerevan 0019, Marshal Baghramian 24d, International Scientific-Educational Center of NAS

Phone՝ +(374 10) 56-80-68