INFORMATION SCIENCE

OBJECTIVES

The Master in Information Science study plan takes into consideration the competencies defined by the “Dublin Descriptors” for the master level and pursues the following goals:

• prepare for employability, ensuring that master graduates (Bologna second cycle) can exercise a profession, which core is, in general, the ability to select, organize, manage, and preserve information which may be used for several purposes, no matter its format or support;
• educate for a professional activity that may take place in all kinds of libraries, archives, documentation, or information centers, as well as in the context of many organizations where the professional acts as an information manager, a content manager, or an information analyst;
• produce a professional able to apply knowledge, to solve problems in new or unknown environments and the scope of generic and multidisciplinary contexts, to assess situations, to develop analysis and synthesis studies, to communicate the conclusions to specialized and generic audiences, to be autonomous and independent in action, and to develop applied research projects in the Information Science area.

STUDY PLAN 2024/2025

PROFESSIONAL ABILITIES

The competencies to be acquired through this 2nd cycle of studies in Information Science are defined as follows:

1. Know the nature of information, its various production modes, its life cycle, and the legal and ethical aspects of its access and use, irrespective of its recording media.
2. Dominate well the theoretic and methodological principles for planning, organizing, and evaluating information systems and services, while being aware of the information policy defined for the context where the activity is being carried out.
3. Dominate well the principles of selection, acquisition, organization, representation, retrieval, preservation, access, and use of information.
4. Dominate the information and communication technologies.

It is thus expected that the Information Science master can:

• organize, manage, and evaluate information systems and services;
• design information management processes along its life cycle;
• be proficient in using information technologies;
• soundly apply assessment techniques to information sources and resources;
• conduct audits, perform expert analysis, and act as an information consultant for the most diverse organizations.