Welcome to the Royal School of Library and Information Science.
You are joining a study programme and an institution that puts
great emphasis on a high quality of education and a great study
environment. The most important thing for us is that you and your
fellow students get an education which is both practical and based
on the latest research. In all modesty, RSLIS is considered one of
the world's best institutions within our field. But as rector of
this school I also support an educational philosophy which states
that it is simply not enough that the educational programmes are
academically well-founded. The hours you spend in the classrooms
studying on your own or in groups, solving assignments together
etc. - those are also hours out of your life and we should do
everything in our power to make them great hours spent in each
other's company.
This means as a student you have a responsibility to the school
as a whole, your fellow students and your own academic development.
Your teachers and the entire institution can contribute with quite
a bit of knowledge and insight, but it is you yourself that need to
absorb it and take it in. We, on the other hand, have a
responsibility to do everything we can to provide you with the best
possible conditions to make this happen. Our ambition to make RSLIS
one of the best places to study in Denmark depends on you too -
even though you are brand new. I invite all of you students to help
improve the school and continuously improve the study
environment.
Here at the Royal School of Library and Information
Science, we can be pleased with our high level of job security
and societal relevance. Through your studies you gain great
insight into the interplay between people, information and
technology which is the same as saying that you gain knowledge
about knowledge - a key competence in today's society, as well as
in the society of the future. Cultural understanding and culture
promotion are also a great and essential part of the studies. And
these two themes, knowledge and culture, are after all part and
parcel of the same thing. Because knowledge is never an isolated
concept found on its own. Knowledge always belongs to a specific
cultural context which helps transform this knowledge.
Per Hasle
Rector, professor