Program Overview

Archive and Library Theory and Management

The Archive and Library Theory and Management program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the theoretical and methodological aspects of archival science and librarianship. The program aims to develop a mature awareness of the main theoretical and methodological aspects of archival science, especially as regards records management and the preservation and cultural promotion of historical archives.

Curriculum

The curriculum for the Archive and Library Theory and Management program includes the following courses:

• General Archivistics: This course aims to develop a mature awareness of the main theoretical and methodological aspects of archival science, especially as regards records management and the preservation and cultural promotion of historical archives.
• Biblioteconomy: This course introduces students to the fundamentals of librarianship, aiming to develop an understanding of the library’s role in society.
• Latin Palaeography: This course aims to illustrate the history of handwriting in the Latin West, with a special focus on Italy.
• Digital Preservation: This course aims to develop the cognitive and methodological tools needed to deal with digital preservation.
• Documentation: This course is a structured discussion of the issues and problems specific to the discipline of Documentation, internationally known as Information Theory or Digital Humanities.
• Document Management: This course aims to develop the cognitive and methodological tools needed to deal with records management.
• Book Publishing Reading: This course aims to present the issues related to book production and sales, publishing industry, reading statistics, consequences of the digital revolution.
• Diplomatic: This course aims to introduce the knowledge and understanding of any written document as a historical phenomenon and of the methodological, critical-problematic, and applicative aspects of the discipline.
• Codiciology: This course aims to provide students with the essential lines of discipline in its articulation of ‘stricto sensu’ codicology and ‘lato sensu’ codicology.
• History of Miniature: This course aims to provide students with a knowledge of the main developments of the history of book illumination in the West during the Middle Ages.
• History of European Relations: This course aims to provide students with adequate knowledge of the historical process that led to the establishment of international and European institutions.
• History of Public Administration: This course aims to provide the tools to understand the history of public administration, especially in relation to bibliographic and archival sources.
• History of the Age of Large Archives: This course aims to train the professionalism of young archivists and librarians by providing them with specialized knowledge of the political and cultural conditions that led to the formation of state and ecclesiastical archives.
• History and Functions of Diplomatic Document: This course aims to provide students with an advanced understanding and a more comprehensive and detailed knowledge on the subject of diplomatic record in Late antiquity and Middle age.
• Physics for Books and Documents: This course aims to provide knowledge and skills on research methods and analytical techniques in the field of physical sciences applied to the study of archival and book heritage.
• History of Libraries: This course aims to introduce students to the general history of libraries and methodological problems.
• Bibliology: This course aims to illustrate the production and structure of the typographic printing book as well as its evolution from the origins to the twentieth century.
• Bibliography: This course aims to provide the essential concepts relating to the history of bibliography as a discipline, the compilation and use of bibliographic repertoires, and its applications in historical perspective and in the contemporary age.
• Preserving and Promoting Historical Archival Heritage: This course aims to develop students' awareness of the main theoretical and methodological issues in the preservation and promotion of the historical archival heritage.
• History of the Printed Book: This course aims to provide a historical analysis of the printed book, starting from the first oriental proofs of the use of movable typefaces and from Gutenberg's invention to the birth of modern publishing.
• Applied Informatics: This course aims to present and practice the main IT tools, theoretical and practical, for the management, storage, and sharing of information in the humanities.
• Legislation for Archives and Libraries: This course aims to provide students with an overview of current legislation in the field of libraries and archives.
• Information Science: This course aims to provide students with the scientific principles and methodologies of Information Science concerning the organization and dissemination of information and knowledge recorded in documents.
• History of Medieval and Modern Law: This course examines the history of European legal systems, legal thought, and legal institutions from early Middle Ages to the codifications of the 19th century.
• History of Political Institutions: This course aims to provide the appropriate tools to understand the history of political institutions, and in particular the history of justice, especially in relation to the specific sources of the discipline both bibliographic and archival.
• English Language Master Level II: This course aims to develop a critical approach to the text and the translated text by analyzing the different strategies available to the translator.
• Medieval Latin Language and Literature: This course aims to provide students with a basic understanding of the history of medieval Latin and history of the medieval Latin literature.
• General Linguistics III A: This course aims to provide students with knowledge and understanding of the scientific literature on the topics dealt with and to be able to comment on it critically.
• Italian Linguistics: This course aims to give a grounding in research methods applied to the history of the Italian language.
• Italian Literature: This course aims to provide students with critical knowledge and skills, as well as a method of study, such as to enable them to analyze and interpret a literary text in complete autonomy.
• Contemporary Italian Literature: This course aims to provide the student with knowledge and understanding of the methodological, critical-problematic, and applied aspects of the Discipline.
• History of Manuscript Transmission of Medieval Textes: This course aims to provide students with a basic knowledge for the study of the history of medieval Latin philology and the transmission of medieval Latin texts.