Library and Information
Science Education in
Slovenia
dr. Alenka Šauperl, assistant professor
Department of Library and Information Science and Book
Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Introduction to Slovenia 1/2
• Population:
1.997.004 (2003 census)
• Territory:
20.273 km2
• Tallest mountain:
Triglav (2.864 m)
• Adriatic coastline:
about 42 km
• Capital city:
Ljubljana (population
300.000)
• Indepentent state
since 1991
Introduction to Slovenia 2/2
• Currency: TOLAR
Architect: Jože Plečnik
(1872-1957)
Building: National and
University Library (1936-1941)
The National and University Library
beginning in
1774
the palace
1941
Slovenian libraries
• 64 public libraries in most towns and
cities
• Academic libraries in all state and
private faculties
• School libraries in all primary and
secondary schools
• Special libraries in some of the major
companies
Professional positions
• Librarian with a high school diploma
• For basic work operations
• Librarian with a college degree
• Work in circulation and technical services
• Librarian with an university degree
• Work in all areas, management positions
Slovenian national library
network
• Almost 300 libraries cooperate in the
national union cataloging system
• High level of cooperation also in
interlibrary loan and other services and
activities
• Cooperation among, and within public,
academic, special and school libraries
Three Slovenian universities
• University of Ljubljana
• 1919
• 26 faculties, 8.419 graduates in 2004
• University of Maribor
• 1975
• 13 faculties, 3.651 graduates in 2004
• University of Primorska (in Koper)
• 2003
• 5 faculties, 341 graduates in 2004
Three Slovenian universities
The University of Ljubljana
1919
Schools
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Academy of Fine Arts
Academy of Music
Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film
and Television
College of Nursing
Biotechnical Faculty
Faculty of Administration
Faculty of Architecture
Faculty of Arts
Faculty of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering
Faculty of Civil and Geodetic
Engineering
Faculty of Computer Science
Faculty of Economics
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Electronics
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Faculty of Law
Faculty of Maritime Studies and
Transport
Faculty of Mathematics and
Physics
Faculty of Mechanical
Engineering
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Natural Sciences
Faculty of Pharmacy
Faculty of Social Sciences
Faculty of Social Work
Faculty of Sports
Faculty of Theology
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Faculty of Arts in the centre of
Ljubljana
Faculty of Arts departments
• Archeology
• Art history
• Comparative
linguistics and
literature
• Ethnology
• Geography
• History
• Library and
information
science and
book studies
• Musicology
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Pedagogy
Philosophy
Psychology
Several languages with
literature, including Czech
• Sociology
• Translating and interpreting
Facts about Faculty of Arts
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Founded in 1919
About 8.000 students
About 300 faculty members
Computers for all faculty, one computer
lab and only a few computers for
students
• Departmental libraries
History of LIS education 1/2
• First organized course:
• 5 weeks long
• For secondary school graduates
• 1947, 1949
• First college program:
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2 years
Major or minor
Academy of Education (now Faculty of Education)
1964/65
History of LIS education 2/2
• First university program:
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4 +1 year program
Major or minor
1987/1988
Faculty of Arts
development:
• Only LS can be studied since 1996/97
• Information science and book studies added in 2000
• Graduate programs:
• Master’s: 2+1 year, individual programs
• Doctoral program up to 5 years
• Since 1995/96
• Still the only LIS program in Slovenia
State examination
• All these years a parallel system:
• All graduates of
• Secondary schools
• Colleges
• Universities
• Work experience + preparatory lectures
• Examinations in 7 subjects at the National
and University Library
Department of Library and Information
Science and Book Studies
• Enrollment of about 50 students per year
• About 30 students in single subject program
• About 20 students also studying at another
department of Faculty of Arts
• Faculty:
• 8 full-time professors and assistants
• About 20 adjunct lecturers
• 4 classrooms + shared computer lab
First year
• Bibliography
• Descriptive
Cataloguing
• English Language I
• Foundations of
Librarianship
• History and
Philosophy of
Science
• History of
Librarianship
• Information
Technology
• Introduction to
information science
• Publishing and Book
Trade I
• Research Methods I
Second year
• Contemporary
Organization of
Librarianship I – Basics
• Databases I
• Descriptive Cataloguing
II
• Developmental
Psychology
• English Language II
• Library Automation
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Research Methods II
Placement
Public Libraries
Publishing and Book
Trade II
• School Libraries
• Subject Cataloguing I
Third year
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Academic Libraries
Bibliometrics
Codicology
Cognitive Psychology I
Contemporary
Organization of
Librarianship II –
Systems
• Databases II
• Descriptive Cataloguing
III
• Placement
• Publishing and Book
Trade III
• Reference Service and
Methods
• Sociology of Mass Media
• Special Libraries
• Subject Cataloguing II
Fourth year
• Book History
• Cognitive Psychology II
• Comparative
Librarianship
• Computer
Communications
• Contemporary
Organization of
Librarianship III –
Theory
• Descriptive Cataloguing
IV.
• Documentation
• Library Management
• Library Marketing
• Library User Studies
• Preservation and
restauration of library
materials
• Publishing and Book
Trade IV
Final year
• Passing all exams
• Graduation thesis:
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• Defenses are
scheduled in
January, April, May,
Advisor
June, September,
Approval of a
and November
committee
Text of 40+ pages
• The dean hands out
Defense in front of a
diplomas in a formal
3 member committee
ceremony several
times a year
Payment
• Undergraduate study:
• No tuition for full-time students
• About 2.500 EUR per year for part-time students
• Master’s study:
• 60% funded by the Ministry of Education
• Total cost about 2.000 EUR per year
• Average salary in Slovenia
• 730 EUR (neto)
Master’s program
• 4 required courses
• 2 elective courses, one outside
department
• Master’s thesis
Required courses
Library science
Information
science
Book studies
Organization of
information
Organization of
information
Contemporary
publishing
LIS research
methods
Development of
LIS
LIS research
methods
Information
retrieval systems
Copyright & trade
of intell. property
Marketing
methods in publ.
Library
management
Digital libraries
Electronic
publishing
Master’s program – Elective courses
• Data structures, algorithms and
programming
• Database design
• Issues in contemporary LIS
• Issues in contemporary
publishing
• Learning as a contiunous
process in personal
development
• Library information systems
• Library marketing
• Library systems and evaluation
• New technologies in publishing
• Preservation of library materials
• Social aspects of information
science
• Theory of descriptive cataloging
• Information theory
• Theory of information sources
and services
• Theory of subject cataloging
• User studies
• Visual information in digital
libraries
New program undergoing
accreditation in 2005
• Bologna declaration
• 3 years of
undergraduate + 2
years of graduate
studies
• One undergraduate
degree with 3 tracks:
• library science,
• information science
• book studies
• Four graduate degrees:
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library science
school librarianship
information science
book studies
International cooperation
• Socrates/Erasmus
• Prague
• City University
London
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Leipzig
• Paris
• Oxford
• Joint degree program in
book studies:
• Hochschule für Technik,
Wirtschaft und Kultur,
Fachbereich Buch und
Museum, Leipzig
• Pôle Métiers du Livre,
Univ. Paris X-Nanterre
• Oxford International
Centre for Publishing
Studies, Oxford Brookes
University
EKIPA Project in Leonardo da
Vinci Program
• Students work in libraries, information
centres, publishers and bookstores
• Become a truly European graduate of
LISB
Thank you.
Come to
visit or study
in Ljubljana.