13250 (v.4) Information Studies 395 - Special and One Person Libraries

Area:	Department of Media and Information
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	2.0
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.
Workshop:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	301835 (v.4) Information Studies 301 - Library and Information Services Management or any previous version AND 306432 (v.3) Information Studies 303 - Knowledge Management Principles or any previous version
Syllabus:	An overview of the specialised knowledge services required in today's special and one-person libraries. Unusual management techniques, the qualities required of the librarian, and the competencies and efficiencies required in managing an information service under what can often be very challenging conditions. Project based on particular special library service provision, e.g. law, health, geoscience, non-government organisations.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	091301 Librarianship and Information Management
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Essential *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
2008	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