Introduction

During the last few decades, the production and diffusion of knowledge has been profoundly influenced by the ‘digital revolution’ both in the fields of science and technology, as well as humanities and social sciences and arts and letters. Our relationship to knowledge has been dramatically transformed and, a fortiori, the organisation, way of working and even the vocation of traditional places for the transmission and conservation of knowledge and culture, such as libraries, media centres and documentation centres. This rapid development makes new skills necessary in the management, organisation and consultation of documentary data, whether digital or not.

The specialisation in Library Sciences and Documentation is designed to train professionals who not only have solid theoretical knowledge of library sciences, bibliometrics and documentology, are also familiar with the audio-visual world, can use digital technology, are aware of digital humanities issues, have skills in the field of project management (including the management of human and financial resources) and in certain legal aspects such as the application of internationals ISO standards, or intellectual property and copyright.

The practical training comes together with the theoretical training during one or two work placements totalling 400 hours in public or private institutions, to prepare graduates as well as possible to take on management and coordination roles in departments within libraries, media and documentation centres at a regional, national or international level in teams which manage digital documentation.
 

Your profile

You

• have had initial university training or have graduated from a higher education institution and wish to focus your training towards the professional fields of production, management and criticism of digital information or those of library sciences and documentary management including digital data ;
• are looking for university level training in the areas of libraries and documentation centres ; or in the fields of the public and private sectors where experience in the production, treatment, management and criticism of digital data is vital ;
• wish to build practical skills on advanced and critical knowledge of information and communication sciences and technologies.
   

Your future job

The holder of the Master's degree in Science of information and communication technologies is trained to intervene in any situation where an appropriate media response to an issue (informative, social, public health, environmental, civic, etc.) and adapted to the audience concerned is expected. In practical terms, this response will consist of producing a media system tailored to the issues and audiences for whom information needs to be made available and/or knowledge, attitudes and behaviour need to be changed.

In terms of jobs, holders of a master's degree in Science of information and communication technologies can design educational tools, raise awareness of the challenges of innovation in different contexts, manage information or provide training and support in the use of new media. With their multi-disciplinary and sufficient technical, informational and social skills, experts in Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies occupy an essential position between those responsible for 'content' in the fields concerned, public or private institutional decision-makers and the teams responsible for technical design.

In the immediate future, with the proliferation of social intelligence technologies and the very high expectations of both the knowledge industries and public authorities keen to invest in digital educational technologies and information and knowledge management, the digital knowledge mediation environments sector will represent a considerable source of employment, with its high-level skills requirements.

 

Your programme

The Master’s degree offers you

• a wide interdisciplinary range ;
• a varied programme specialisation in which you can combine a focus and an option course depending on your interests and the profile you wish to develop ;
• training which is focussed on awareness of the different career openings: field visits, case studies, practical exercises etc. ;
• a compulsory work placement of a minimum of 3 months in the field (company, laboratory etc.).