306554 (v.1) Information Studies 535 - Digital Libraries

Area:

Department of Media and Information

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Seminar:

1 x 3 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

12444 (v.3) Information Studies 512 - Collection Management or any previous version

Syllabus:

An advanced overview of the ways digitisation is influencing library collections and services. Topics include: digital resources and collection development, aggregation, digital document delivery, cataloguing web-based resources and digital objects, digitisation of technical services, including acquisitions and cataloguing, negotiating with providers and aggregators of digital material. Creating digital objects and collections including the legal implications and preservation of digital objects. Develop and practice skills in the creation and storage of digital objects.

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Field of Education:

020399 Information Systems not elsewhere classified

Funding Cluster:

06 - Computing, Built Environment, Health

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Fully Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 1				Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External