THE SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL ON THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LIBRARIANSHIP
ISSN 2217-5563
 

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Tatjana Aparac Jelušić
Sveučilište u Zadru, Zadar, Hrvatska
— Odjel za knjižničarstvo
taparac@unizd.hr


Challenges of the Digital Age in Shaping of the Academic Education Programs


Summary
Claiming that the existing teaching plans and curricula in the education of information specialists are failing to meet the current demands that heritage institutions are faced with today, the author stresses the importance of reshaping the curricula, following the demands for multidisciplinary professionals in the heritage institutions that face with the challenges of the digital age.
This paper discusses the approach, design process and expected outcomes of the new graduate academic program Written Heritage in the Digital Environment. It points to the four levels of the expected learning outcomes (conceptual, operational, technical and general) and introduces the content included in the program. On this path, mandatory subjects in this curriculum have been selected and shaped: Introduction to digital libraries, Cultural heritage and management of digitization, Electronic documents and formats, Metadata and identifiers, Research methods in information sciences, Provision of digital services, Subject indexing and retrieval, Memory institutions and learning. Elective subjects are highly dependent on student’s interest and the possibilities of including external experts; their basic core consists of: Managing collections in the memory institutions, Planning and designing of the digital heritage collections, Quality control and evaluation of the digital collections and services, Ethics and multiculturalism of the digital libraries, The basics of the information architecture (IA), Database design, The Economics of digital libraries, Digital publishing (the subject includes a workshop). The project of the designing the new program received the financial support from the National Foundation for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development of the Republic of Croatia, as the only one in the field of social sciences.

Keywords:
heritage, cultural heritage, digitization, educational programs, librarianship.



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