This is a 3rd year elective unit in the BITS.

The unit is consistent with the demands from the LIS profession and the workplace for students to be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills relating to reference processes, and an understanding of the principles and practice applied by libraries in selecting, acquiring/licensing, and providing users with access to all forms of information resources.

This unit has been updated as part of a 2009 review and comparison of data with current Handbook, Syllabus + and Callista data.

This unit will no longer be offered in OCL mode from Semester 1 2012. The mode of offering from Semester 1 2012 will be on campus only. Only a handful of students have opted to take this unit in off campus mode in recent years and their results have not been very good. They are enrolled in degrees which are offered almost entirely in on campus mode and are unused to studying in off campus mode. It is very resource intensive to offer this unit in this mode to such a small number of students. It is not clear why this unit was ever offered as an OCL unit - perhaps because the equivalent 5th year unit is offered in OCL mode (FIT5105), but it is part of a postgraduate program which offers many units in this mode and attracts significant numbers of mature age students who mostly handle the mode very well. We are currently moving to remove the OCL option from all third year units in similar circumstances.

25/02/2013 - The change to the exam duration from 3 hours to 2 hours is an administrative correction, to bring this entry into line with the unit guide. The change in exam duration occurred in 2012, and the Semester 1, 2013 exam should also be 2 hours.

26/02/2013 - Exec Services administrative change to fix typo and add date.

14/05/14 - Admin update: minor change to learning outcomes (as approved by ADE).

07/12/2017 - Unit disestablished at FEC 5/17 Item 7.3.

This is a third year elective unit in the Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems (BITS). It is on the elective schedule for students interested in obtaining accreditation from ALIA or RMAA or ASA. It focuses on information provision and collection management in any real or virtual repository of knowledge. It is co-taught with FIT5105 Information Access and connects with other core Library units. The unit explores the epistemologies of knowledge, the network infrastructures that underlie its creation, dissemination and use, and the nature of patterns of organisational and individual use of knowledge. It provides up-to-date practice in the principles of information retrieval, and technologies for collection and management of information.

At the completion of this unit students should be able to:

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This unit introduces students to the major categories of information resources in all media and how they are accessed through a variety of common user interfaces from anywhere in the world. The process of satisfying these needs through the reference interview and the application of skilled search strategies is explored. The ways that information resources are procured by libraries and e-repositories through purchase or licensing, and supplied to users on a cost-effective, efficient basis are examined. Access and authentication, intellectual property law and professional duty of care are described.

On-campus only from semester 1 2012 - see reasons for change section above for full explanation.

Examination (2 hours): 50%; In-semester assessment: 50%

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Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

FIT

Completion of 36 credit points at level 1 or equivalent