授课元素等同于研究生文凭，并且具有专业资格，因此可以在您的第一个专业职位上晋升为特许资格。您的研究将侧重于信息的组织，检索和可访问性的原则，以及诸如图书馆等信息组织的战略管理，在线和网络上的信息格局以及所有人的图书馆服务的发展种。成功完成学位论文可培养您作为研究人员的领域知识和技能，从而获得文学硕士学位。您可以进行安置，我们将帮助您在信息部门，图书馆和其他相关中心（包括大型公司，地方政府，国家卫生局，金融和法律服务中心）采购。这将为图书馆，信息和媒体行业提供交流机会。
Recognised and approved by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), this route prepares graduates of all disciplines for a career in the modern information society and its industries. The taught element is equivalent to a postgraduate diploma, and as a professional qualification enables progression to chartership in your first professional post. Your study will focus on the principles for the organisation, retrieval and accessibility of information and on the strategic management of information organisations, such as libraries, the information landscape, for example online and on the web, and on the development of library services of all kinds. Successful completion of a dissertation develops your knowledge of the field and skills as a researcher resulting in the award of MA. You may undertake a placement, which we will help you to source, in information units, libraries and other relevant centres, including large corporations, local government, the National Health Service, financial and legal services. This will provide networking opportunities within the library, information and media industries.Career prospectsThe increase in available digital information has led to a growing demand for professionals who have an understanding of information organisations. As well as libraries, this includes the health sector, industries of cultural heritage, research, publishing, broadcast and media, and those employed to develop methods for storing, curating, accessing and using information in innovative ways. You will be ideally placed to pursue a career as an information professional. Graduates on this longstanding masters course have been successful in building careers as diverse as librarians, textbook programme managers, digital heritage specialists, information scientists, media researchers, records managers, web developers, learning resources managers, digital librarians, health librarians for the NHS, and government archivists..