Meet the iSchools
Berlin School of Library and Information Science
The Berlin School of Library and Information Science (Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft) is the only program at a research-intensive university in Germany and the only one with the right to grant doctorates in library and information science. In accordance with the Bologna process, the Berlin School offers full B.A. and master’s programs as well. Of particular note is its post-graduate executive education program that has a substantial applicant waiting list. The curriculum and the research strongly emphasize contemporary digital library and information management topics.
Currently the Berlin School offers the following degree programs:
Bachelor of Arts in LIS and a second subject
Master of Arts in LIS
Master of Arts (postgraduate executive education program with monthly face-to-face consultations)
Magister (the traditional German Master of Arts, which will end in 2010)
All courses are intended to prepare students to work in traditional library jobs, digital library projects, or in the content industry with publishers, media companies or software-companies. We educate information professionals who are able to tackle problems and form solutions. Our aim is to educate leaders for the information age.
Research at the Berlin school blends empirical and hermeneutic approaches using methods from anthropology, linguistics and computer science. Areas like user-research cut across traditional and digital libraries as well as public and academic libraries.
Some current projects include:
– Evaluation of digital libraries
– Long-term digital preservation
– Cross-language searching
– Certification for Open Access repositories
– Tools for electronic publishing
– Networks for image-orientated e-Scholarship