INTRODUCTION AND DEFINITIONS
DILL (Digital Library Learning) is an international Master
for the education of digital librarians, selected and financed from
the Erasmus Mundus Program and started in 2006. It is a joint
course, taught in English, and delivered by a Consortium of
Universities coordinated by Oslo Akershus University (Norway),
together with the Tallinn University (Estonia) and the University
of Parma (Italy). The students come from all areas of the world
and spend the first semester in Oslo, the second in Tallinn and the
third in Parma, completing their thesis where they choose their
supervisor. Defining the role of the digital librarian, the DILL
Consortium partners defined it as