Libraries

LIBRARY SCIENCE - qualification and retraining programme

The programmes aim at the acquisition of the competences necessary to practice the occupation of librarian and they consist of two modules, with a duration of 2 and 3 weeks. The participants holding high school diplomas, as well as those holding a college degree participate in a common first module, and then they are split during the second module. The trainers are professionals with experience in info-documentary structures, who use latest training techniques and encourage the exchange of ideas among participants.

The competency areas are:

• working procedures in internal services and technical problems, as well the cataloguing/classification/indexing of library documents;
• administrative, communication problems, conservation, legal issues, collections and acquisitions;
• drafting of notices and receipts, administrative and accounting documents, acquisition of library documents, storage and conservation of library documents, bookkeeping of library documents from funds, inventory of library funds;
• management of public interest and utility information;
• promotion of library services and products, user consultancy, communication with beneficiaries, supply of library documents towards the user;
• internal and external communication;
• maintenance of professional cooperation relationships with the authorities, the community, sponsors and the media.

At the end of the programme, the participants with high school diplomas will receive a qualification diploma, while those with university degrees will receive a graduation certificate, valid for any type of info-documentary structures.

Retraining/Specialization programmes:

• integrated informational systems in the library;
• knowledge update; new trends in biblioteconomy;
• the internet, a universe in full expansion;
• library communication;
• bookkeeping and capitalization of movable cultural goods - books.