About us / Background Analysis
In accordance with the Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark (RSLIS) Act in 1998 and as an extension of a result contract applicable for the period between 2000 and 2003, RSLIS underwent a comprehensive reorganisation from a profession school to a higher education institution. During this period, a new research structure, course structure, management structure and administrative structure were implemented, including radical rationalisation under the main heading of unit organisation. During this period, RSLIS modernised all its courses of study, introduced strategically-orientated pedagogic and subject competence development courses, focused its research and constructed new comprehensive and strategically-orientated research programmes as an extension of an international research evaluation, began a new employment structure for its scientific colleagues, and intensified work with documentation and communication of the institution’s results, nationally and internationally. On this basis, the challenge over the next few years will be quality development concerning breadth, depth and consolidation. Download the background analysis in full. The General Social Development
The social significance of the RSLIS’s core competences has changed over these years. Employment in the knowledge society has placed more central focus on the RSLIS’s core competences than before, and during these years the labour market has broadly speaking recognised the increasing utilisation of the library and information science’s underlying core competences. The technological development with its explosive amounts of information in the digital world in particular has a greater need for these specific competences and their development. The Core Competences, Knowledge Organisation and Information Retrieval
The core competences "knowledge organisation" and "information retrieval" constitute the classic foundations of the collection, structuring, management, division, retrieval and communication work of librarians and organisers regarding information and knowledge. The objective of research and development within these competences is to optimise the interplay between producers and users of information and knowledge.
Background Analysis
The Situation at the Start of 2003In accordance with the Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark (RSLIS) Act in 1998 and as an extension of a result contract applicable for the period between 2000 and 2003, RSLIS underwent a comprehensive reorganisation from a profession school to a higher education institution. During this period, a new research structure, course structure, management structure and administrative structure were implemented, including radical rationalisation under the main heading of unit organisation. During this period, RSLIS modernised all its courses of study, introduced strategically-orientated pedagogic and subject competence development courses, focused its research and constructed new comprehensive and strategically-orientated research programmes as an extension of an international research evaluation, began a new employment structure for its scientific colleagues, and intensified work with documentation and communication of the institution’s results, nationally and internationally. On this basis, the challenge over the next few years will be quality development concerning breadth, depth and consolidation. Download the background analysis in full. The General Social Development
The social significance of the RSLIS’s core competences has changed over these years. Employment in the knowledge society has placed more central focus on the RSLIS’s core competences than before, and during these years the labour market has broadly speaking recognised the increasing utilisation of the library and information science’s underlying core competences. The technological development with its explosive amounts of information in the digital world in particular has a greater need for these specific competences and their development. The Core Competences, Knowledge Organisation and Information Retrieval
The core competences "knowledge organisation" and "information retrieval" constitute the classic foundations of the collection, structuring, management, division, retrieval and communication work of librarians and organisers regarding information and knowledge. The objective of research and development within these competences is to optimise the interplay between producers and users of information and knowledge.