MBIB4240 Institutions Promoting Information and Culture Course description

This course will have an institutional perspective focusing in particular on archives, libraries and museums, the emergence of the information disseminating profession, institutionalisation and roles.

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Knowledge

The student has

• advanced knowledge of information and culture disseminating institutions, first and foremost archives and libraries and these institutions¿ values and social role
• specialist knowledge and understanding of the relationship between the different institutions and how this relationship is influenced and changed by changes in the information and culture dissemination institutions¿ surroundings - political, demographic, cultural, technological, the development of new forms of learning and experiences, etc.
• in-depth knowledge about the profession¿s role and professional practice in the three different types of institution
• in-depth knowledge of relevant theories from social and organisational sciences, such as institutional theory and theories and methods used to estimate and assess the usefulness of information and culture disseminating institutions

Skills The student

• masters relevant theoretical terms and perspectives that are used in research in the field in order to analyse and understand the relevant institutions, their history, development and change processes, etc.
• is capable of reflecting on the relationship between professional practice in archives and libraries
• has developed a knowledge base in relation to the empirical field and to theory and methods that enable them to design and conduct research projects on information and culture disseminating institutions
• is capable of leading complex planning processes leading to the ability to update the archives¿ and libraries¿ role in relation to social changes

Competence

• The student has the ability to cooperate across information science specialisations

The course is organised as a series of three or four sessions over three days.

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The assessment form is twofold, consisting of a semester paper and an individual three-day written home exam. The semester paper can be written individually. The scope should be of approximately 15 pages. It can also be written in a group of two to three students. The scope should then be approximately 20 pages. 

The two parts are graded separately. Both parts of the exam must be assessed with a pass grade in order for a student to pass the course. The semester paper counts for 50 per cent and the exam paper counts for 50 per cent of the overall final assessment of the course. Grades for the different parts are stated on the diploma.

Candidates who fail the ordinary exam can take a resit/rescheduled exam in the part(s) they failed. If the semester paper is written in a group, all the group members must take a resit/rescheduled exam if a fail grade has been awarded.

A grade scale with grades from A to E for pass and F for fail is used.

The exam papers are graded by one internal and one external examiner.