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PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc Information Management PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc Information Studies
Full-time or part-time Full-time or part-time
Management of information is key to the This course prepares you for a career in a
success of modern organisations. Contemporary wide variety of library and information service
studies show that information professionals environments and covers the underpinning
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should take account of business strategy, knowledge and skills needed in first professional
cultural and behavioural issues, and knowledge posts within this sector.
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and understanding of systems concepts.
Consequently, there is a need for professionals
Librarianship has a strong practical component
with the knowledge and expertise to employ
and, in addition to covering theoretical aspects
appropriate approaches to systems development
of the organisation, retrieval, dissemination and
in a diverse variety of contexts. These
management of information, you will develop
professionals should be able to communicate
a variety of professionally relevant skills. You
with the business community to identify
will engage in a wide range of studies. Several
organisations’ information requirements, build
modules are structured to enable you to relate
models of those requirements and develop
content directly to your own library/information
successful systems.
management workplace contexts. This course is
accredited by the Chartered Institute of Library
This course will help you create an effective and & Information Professionals (CILIP). Successful
appropriate pathway to meet your career needs completion will help you secure a professional
and develop a comprehensive set of skills for post in the UK or elsewhere in the world and will
employment. Its key focus is that information is enable you to register with the CILIP.
a corporate resource and systems development
should be driven by organisational requirements.
As you progress, the course will introduce you
Technology should be regarded as a key enabler
to practical and theoretical aspects of digital
but not the primary driver in the development
media and communications and the concepts
process. You will study theory within a systems
of organisation of information for retrieval.
and an organisational context and put that theory
You will then gain a conceptual and practical
into practice through case work, a dissertation
familiarity with the identification, evaluation and
and the development of information systems.
exploitation of a range of information resources,
The dissertation/final project allows you to
and develop your understanding of professional
engage in research and advanced scholarship in
information and library work. These skills and
a subject area that is appropriate to your course
a general grounding in research methods will
but of your own choosing.
allow you to explore key theories concerning the
information society, together with evaluation of
On this course you will develop your skills the work of key information society theorists.
to devise, manage and evaluate strategies You will also develop your awareness of the
relating to the exploitation of information methods and skills required to carry out Masters
resources in organisations, and to manage level research successfully whilst reflecting
the implementation of those strategies. You critically on your own development in the context
will choose from a range of innovative and of your chosen programme of study.
challenging modules to build a programme of
study to fit your own professional requirements.
Entry requirements
In addition to the University entry requirements,
Entry requirements all applicants should have worked in a library
In addition to the University entry requirements or information-related job for at least one year
you will require a degree in business computing/ prior to joining the course.
IT or similar.
Key facts
Key facts Course code: INSTC/INSTD/INSTM
Course code: INMAC/INMAD/INMAM Place of study: Headingley Campus
Place of study: Headingley Campus Start date: September or January
Start date: September or January Length of study: Full-time 1 year.
Length of study: Full-time 1 year. Part-time 2 years.
Part-time 2 years.
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