The thesis explores the subject areas of master's theses in the Bologna process written at the Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies between 2012 and 2020. The aim is to find out how the theses are distributed among the areas of librarianship, information science and publishing studies, how they are distributed among different subjects within these areas and what are the trends over the chosen time period. We investigated 189 theses by means of the method of quantitative subject analysis. The results show that approximately two thirds of the theses explore the topics from the area of librarianship and the remaining third of the theses evenly cover the topics from the areas of information science and publishing studies. The authors whose fields of study are librarianship or publishing studies more often choose topics from their own area than the authors whose field of study is information science. The topics from the subject area of publishing, printing and book studies and the subject area of library users’ information needs and information behaviour are most often explored topics in the theses, while on the other hand the topics from the subject areas of theory and research methodology in librarianship, information science and publishing studies receive no attention from the authors. An increase in the number of topics from the subject area of library services and activities for users in the last year and a slight decrease in the number of topics from the subject area of library users’ information needs and information behaviour in the last five years are noticed. All analyses used in the study have their own methodological shortcomings. This is the first study exploring the subject areas of Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies master’s theses. It can be useful for thesis mentors, professors, study programmes’ designers and students at the department.
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