Library an information science education in Norway

Abstract

The author presents library and information science education in Norway, with particular reference 10 the data processing component, The 3 year undergraduate programme at The Norwegian School of Library and Information Science (NSLJS) is deseribred, but particular emphasis is given to a presentation of the 2 year postgraduate programme in information science and data processing, established in 1984 and open to specially qualified librarians. A self-financed research and development group (BRODD), also to a certain extent integrated into the postgraduate programme, is presented. The author underlines that the programmes aim at preparing the students for information handling in library as well as non-library environments, and that the extensive data processing component in the postgraduate programme should produce edp-librarians with a thorough knowledge of the administration, organization and retrieval of documents and data.