The Faculty recently shifted their curriculum to a five year program resulting in a Diploma equivalent to our first university degree with an upper class concentration like our MLIS degree. The new curriculum is equally divided between humanities cour ses and courses on bibliographical and library subjects. The latter covers theoretical training in familiar subjects including informatics and user services. The Academy s Library has 600,000 volumes and 386 class computers are present. However, no e-mail service or LAN s are available as yet.
Facsimile transmission is common, though.
The professors and students are facing difficult times due to the economic and political changes since the early 1990s.