Teaching library and information science has been under pressure in
the last decades to shift and reorganize the fundamental approach to the
traditional library profession to an information technology studies in the
first phase and postgraduate le
vels. The impact of the labour market and
the introduction of ICT was clear to the ideas and concepts of traditional
libraries and library studies to become more stable at universities. Such
studies rely on research and respond to the requirements of university
academic interests in addition to the skills and disciplines required for the
labour market. Libraries and Information Department at Damascus
University keeps developing the curriculum to be compatible with the
rapid developments in this area.
