The doctoral programme

The doctoral programme in Library Science offers an opportunity to obtain an academic qualification at the highest educational level in the interdisciplinary field of document-based collections and information management for professionals, especially librarians, concerned with the theory and practice of institutional and other forms of distribution of printed and electronic sources of information, databases and other modern content delivery solutions and their various users.

The Library and Information Science doctoral programme –the only one of its kind in the country – aims to foster the next generation of librarians and information specialists/researchers, to develop the skills and competences of library and information centre staff to an academic level, to identify new research opportunities for professional development and international connections, to provide research infrastructure for scientific studies and to disseminate research results.

Our academic workshop also prioritises topics such as library management, library informatics, information ethics and equal opportunities, network research and development, and business-oriented information management. Our work is connected to all sub-disciplines of Library and Information Science, to recent innovations and to the numerous strategic aspects of the knowledge society. For more than two decades, our programme has supported doctoral students in a broad spectrum of literary and cultural studies, with a commitment to the humanities.

The Institute of Library and Information Science at ELTE’s Faculty of Humanities not only has a tradition of interdisciplinary research and distinguished research and teaching staff, but also an extensive academic network of national and international partners, enabling it to provide effective support for doctoral students in their PhD studies.