International Scientific Educational Centre academics visit to University of Parma to become acquainted to the Quality Assurance methods.

1. MA in Library and Information Sources
LIS Situation in Armenia
International Scientific-Educational Center of
National Academy of Sciences of Armenia

2. LIS Situation
The majority of HEIs (Higher Education
Institutions) in Armenia are harmonising
their education systems with the
r e q u i r em e n t s o f t h e B o l o g n a P r o c e s s , t h e
purpose of which is to enhance the
European Higher Education Area by
making academic degree standards and
quality assurance standards more
c o mp a r a b l e a n d c o m p a t i b l e t h r o u g h o u t
Europe.

3. LIS Situation
At present Armenian State Pedagogical
University provides a higher education
diploma in Librarianship at both Bachelor
and Master levels, and Fundamental
Scientific Library of National Academy of
Sciences of Armenia provides more
vocationally-based training in librarianship.
The teaching and curricula in Armenian State
Pedagogical University used to follow the
Soviet library education system model dating
b a c k t o t h e 1 9 6 0 ’s .

4. ISEC and LIS
• In 2009 within the frames of European
Union 1 4 5 0 2 1 - Tem p u s - 2 0 0 8 U K - J P C R
p r o j e c t “ N e w M a s t e r ’s P r o g r a m m e i n
Library and Information Science” the
International Scientific-Educational
Center opened a Master program in
Library and Information Sources (part-
time).

5. ISEC and LIS

6. Goal
The goal of Master’s program in library and
information sources is to provide students with the
foundation for developing careers as information
professionals and to teach them how to use
technological advances to meet the changing
information needs of a diverse society.

7. VISION
We expect our students
• to provide navigation to broader audience
• to use technological advances to meet the changing
information needs of a diverse society
• to become multifunctional people, in charge of library
administration, public and technical services and so on
• to become highly qualified specialists providing
information on different forms (traditional, digital) of
the libraries
• to become familiar with key policy issues and
technological trends
• to manage basic knowledge about web programming
and library website.

8. Goal
Students in the program are introduced to the roles
and functions of libraries in contemporary society,
they become familiar with key policy issues and
technological trends, learn to manage and evaluate
collections, and to use technology to improve access
to information, as well as library information network
management, basic knowledge about web
programming and library website management.

9. Goal
Students who complete the program are
prepared for a diverse variety of careers
in library administration, public services,
t e c h n i c al s e r v i ce s , r e f e r e n c e s e r v i c e s , a n d
c o l l e c t i o n d e v el o p m e n t a t p u b l i c , s c h o o l ,
a c a d e mi c , a n d s p e c i a l l i b r a r i e s .

10. Learning Outcomes
Generic
• Ability to critical and analytical thinking, reasoning, judging
and problem solving
• Ability to make inductions and deductions
• Skills to use IT and communication technologies, ability to
retrieve, process and analyse information from a wide range of
information sources
• Use communication, collaboration, organization, and
leadership skills
• Ability to read and comprehend information sources in
specialist English
• Knowledge about basic concepts in Information Technologies
and Information Science

11. Learning Outcomes
Subject-Specific
• Knowledge about digital libraries, Machine Readable
Cataloguing, interaction of IT and DLs, its components and
application
• Skills to manage access to electronic information resources
• Skills to digitize collections for online access, arranging and
managing archives and archive digitization
• Knowledge about the structure of description groups used in
machine-readable cataloguing
• Techniques in importing and exporting data in machine-
readable format

12. Learning Outcomes
Subject-Specific
• Fundamental knowledge about types of network models
• Theoretical and practical skills in library information
networks, its design and management
• Ability in operating with HTML, CSS and Javascript
languages
• Ability to design and update simple-structured websites
• Knowledge and comprehension of web programming
and programming languages (PHP web programming
language in Drupal 6 content management system)

13. Learning Outcomes
Subject-Specific
• Basic knowledge about e-learning, understanding
how to create, manage and operate virtual learning
environment
• Skills in long-term build-up, management and
maintenance of document collections, IT skills
needed for document processing
• Ability in long term preservation and digitisation of
cultural heritage, to get familiar with open access
modes for scientific publishing system and digital
technologies for publishing
• Skills in creating and managing databases

14. Learning Outcomes
Subject-Specific
• Skills in forming comprehensive bibliographical
databases and understanding its modern
approaches
• Practical skills in cataloguing and classification
• To have understanding about basic norms and
provisions about intellectual property in force in
the Republic of Armenia.

15. ISEC NAS RA

16. QUALITY ASSURANCE IN ARMENIA
After integrating the Bologna process QA has become
the next important step in Armenia. ANQA which
was created by government decision is called to
coordinate this field. Corresponding standards have
already been proposed which must be widely
adopted by all the functioning higher institutions
because their acceptance will depend on a
willingness to change and develop on the part of
signatory states with long established and powerful
higher education systems. NAS RA has also taken
the necessary concrete initiatives towards
establishing QA and will certainly look very
carefully its practices against the European
expectation.

17. QUALITY ASSURANCE IN ARMENIA
For further information see
www.anca.am
www.flib.sci.am
www.isec.am

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