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Master's Degree in Documentation, Libraries and Archives Management

Basic information
Institution
Complutense University of Madrid
Name of programme (original language)
Master Universitario GESTIÓN DE LA DOCUMENTACIÓN, BIBLIOTECAS Y ARCHIVOS M
Web link to the E&T programme
https://documentacion.ucm.es/data/cont/docs/titulaciones/1782.pdf
Cultural Heritage Area
Safeguarding and preservation
Crafts and traditional knowledge
Planning and Management
Programme description

The University Master's Degree in Documentation Management, Libraries and Archives is aimed at the training of new researchers and professionals, not only in these areas of knowledge, but also in other environments, organizations or institutions in which the document management generated by these.

COMMON COMPULSORY SUBJECTS ECTS SEMESTER
Compulsory Module. Subject: Research Methodology and Advanced Study in Information Management in Units documentaries
Documentary Applications of Information Retrieval 4.5 ECTS
Rights and Digital Licenses 4.5 ECTS
Direction and Management of Projects in Information Units and
Documentation 4.5 ECTS
Ethics and Deontology of Information and Documentation 4.5 ECTS
Organization and Representation of Knowledge 4.5 ECTS
Preservation, Conservation and Dissemination of Digital Heritage 4.5 ECTS


COMPULSORY SUBJECTS OF SPECIALTY ECTS SEMESTER
Specialty Module. 

Specialty in Library Management
Agenda and Digital Markets 4.5 ECTS
Digital and Specialized Libraries 4.5 ECTS
Institutional Cooperation and Libraries 4.5 ECTS
Metric Studies of Information and Evaluation of Science in Academic Libraries 4.5 ECTS
Library Products and Services 4.5 ECTS
Vocabularies and Semantic Schemes in Libraries 4.5 ECTS


File Management Specialty
Filing as Company Assets 4.5 ECTS
Public Law Applied to Archives 4.5 ECTS
Electronic Management and Administration of Archive Documents 4.5 ECTS
Norms and Standards in Archives 4.5 ECTS
Archival Systems and Resources 4.5 ECTS
Typology and Documentary Validation 4.5 ECTS

Master's Thesis 6 ECTS

 

Is the programme a joint degree programme?
No
Double degree
No
Joint delivery
No
Qualification provider
Complutense University of Madrid
Does the E&T programme lead to a formal qualification?
Yes
Name of the qualification (English)
Master Degree
Name of the qualification (Original language)
Master Universitario
Education category (HE/VET/HE-VET)
Higher Education (HE)
Education format
Formal
Programme Type
Initial E&T
Academic degree
Master
One time event or regular basis
Programme takes place on a regular basis
Frequency
yearly
Last time it the programme took place (start date)
Statistics / Formal status
Core function
Recognition
Supplementary functions
Preservation and Safeguarding
Engagement and use
ESCO - Occupation
2621.3 conservator
Does the programme lead to a regulated profession?
No
EQF
7
NQF
7
Characterization of the E&T programme
Credit system
ECTS
ECTS credits
60.00
Student work load (hours)
60h
Contact hours comments

The course combine frontal and online training, in addition to a final work (paper) to be done at the end of the course.

Duration
1.00
Years
Years
Study format
Full-time
Are there access requirements?
Yes
Access requirements Description

Bachelor degree in any subject or topics

Teaching language
Spanish
Programme learning outcomes

This Master's Degree trains professionals inserted in the vast labor market of documentalists, librarians and archivists, demanded both in the public administration in all its levels, from the municipal libraries to the National Library, from the archives of management of municipalities, councils and ministries,
to the great historical archives (National, Simancas, Corona de Aragón, Indias…), and others,
as in the private company that require our professionals a variety of specific knowledge about new cultural and general technologies that they receive in current degrees.

Is there a mandatory (external) practical training?
No
Mode of delivery of education / training
Blended
Required qualification of teachers/trainers in the core subjects

na

Tuition cost

na