The unit is a 3rd year elective unit in the BITS, available for Information Management major students who seek professional recognition with the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). It provides students with the skills and knowledge to organise information resources for effective retrieval.

The mode of offering from Semester 2 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 (FIT5106), 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.

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

This is an elective unit in the Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems (BITS), available for those who seek professional recognition with the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). It is co-taught with FIT5106 Information Organisation and provides students with the skills and knowledge to organise information resources for effective retrieval.

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

• Explain the key principles, concepts and standards that guide the development of information organisation and retrieval systems and web-based information architectures; ;

• Apply standard cataloguing, classification, indexing, thesaurus construction, and knowledge discovery metadata schemes and tools;

• Explain the guiding principles behind bibliographic utilities / networks;

• Use bibliographic software; and

• Design systems for organising information and facilitating access to information resources in physical collections or digital/web-based repositories.

091301

This unit develops understanding of the fundamental principles, concepts and standards that guide the development of information organisation and retrieval systems and web-based information architectures. It deals with standards governing description, distribution and access to information locally and globally cataloguing, indexing, thesaurus construction, classification and metadata for knowledge discovery. It examines the effects of economic, social and technological factors on the development of bibliographic networks and cataloguing operations. Practical sessions deal with the use of major bibliographic tools, schemes and systems for information organisation.

On-campus

Examination (3 hours): 50%; In-semester assessment: 50%

6

2 hrs lectures/wk, 2 hrs laboratories/wk

FIT

Completion of 36 credit points at level 1 or equivalent