1997 QUT Handbook

fered as required and when the necessary expertise is available.
See School of Information Systems announcements for
details of topics being offered.
Courses: IT30, IT40
Prerequisites: See School announcements
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITN246 MINOR PROJECT 1 (IS)
Students may pursue a specialised area or broaden their knowledge
in an area of relevance to their employment. Topic is
decided by agreement between the student and a staff member
acting as supervisor.
Courses: IT35 / IT40
Prerequisites: At least 60 credit points completed
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITN248 MINOR PROJECT 2 (IS)
Students may pursue a specialised area or broaden their knowledge
in an area of relevance to their employment. Topic is
decided by agreement between the student and a staff member
acting as supervisor.
Courses: IT35 / IT40
Prerequisites: At least 60 credit points completed
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITN250 DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS
Distributed DBMS architectures, data replication and fragmentation;
query decomposition and optimisation; transaction
management in distributed settings; distributed
concurrency control; recovery and multi-databases.
Courses: IT30, IT40
Prerequisites: ITB232 and ITN243
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITN340 INFORMATION AGENCIES
In-depth understanding of the history and development of information
agencies and their services, to enable approaches
to their advancement based upon performance analysis and
analysis of user needs.
Courses: IF64, IT30, IT40
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITN341 INFORMATION POLICY & PLANNING
The relationship between the public and private sectors in information
provision, and an examination of the information
industry and corporate and government policies relating to it.
Courses: IF64, IT25, IT30, IT35 / IT40
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITN343 PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT
The information resource; information as an organisational
resource; evolution of information resources management;
information management with reference to management principles;
management information systems; applications of environmental
scanning; information technology management;
information flows and information mapping; information resource
evaluation; information management and business
strategy; information added value; information and competitive
advantage; social intelligence.
Courses: IT35 / IT40, IT25
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITN345 INFORMATION SYSTEMS AUDIT
A general approach to IS auditing; the management controls
framework; the application controls framework; security administration;
audit software; the IS audit function; controls
over asset safeguarding, data integrity, system effectiveness
and efficiency.
Courses: IT40
Prerequisites: Completion of Information Management
module 1
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITN347 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
PROJECT 1
Students may pursue a specialised area or broaden their knowledge
in areas of relevance to their employment. Topic is de-
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cided by agreement between the student and a staff member
acting as supervisor.
Courses: IT40
Prerequisites: Dependent on individual topic
Credit Points: 12
■ ITN348 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
PROJECT 2
Students may pursue a specialised area or broaden their knowledge
in areas of relevance to their employment. Topic is decided
by agreement between the student and a staff member
acting as supervisor.
Courses: IT40
Prerequisites: Dependent on individual topic
Credit Points: 12
■ ITN350 INFORMATION CONTEXTS
Survey research methods; proposal writing; ethics in the provision
of information resources and information services;
marketing of information services; user education; referral
services; an overview of programs providing information resources
and services for persons with special needs; developing
reliable and valid measuring instruments for program
evaluation.
Courses: IT40 Prerequisites: ITP329, MGN409
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITN351 INFORMATION SOURCES 2
Role of the search intermediary and reference librarian; implications
of a National Information Policy; news sources;
other information sources related to R&D, long-range planning,
marketing; advanced online, network and CDROM information
retrieval; expert systems as tools in reference work.
Courses: IT40 Prerequisites: ITP328
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITN352 INFORMATION ORGANISATION 2
Rules for description of material in library collections; application
of computer-based cataloguing rules to all types of
materials; comparison of description of materials in OPACs,
MARC format, shared cataloguing and cataloguing networks;
comparison of general classification systems and the use of
main systems such as DDC and LC in libraries; alternative
classification systems such as BSO; special classification systems
for specific subject areas; development and use of structured
interfaces to Internet resources.
Courses: IT40 Prerequisites: ITP327
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITN354 ORGANISING MULTICULTURAL
INFORMATION RESOURCES & SERVICES
Initial and ongoing information gathering and decision making
required; market research for a multicultural service; coping
with the transient nature of many ethnic groups in a given
location; the particular problems of ageing ethnic communities;
second and later generation Australian-born ethnic community
members and their needs; the complexities of total
illiteracy and monolanguage literacy; handling intra and inter
ethnic group sensitivities and hostilities; non-English language
resource providers; selection methodologies appropriate where
in-library language expertise is nonexistent; providing effective
resources catalogues; physical organisation of multiple
language resource collections; linkages to the English language
resources collection; space provision and signage for a
multicultural service; marketing and public relations: targets,
strategies and tactics.
Courses: IT40
Prerequisites: ITP329, ITP328, MGN409
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITN355 INFORMATION RESOURCES FOR
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Commercial information services: historical perspective on
the types of services offered in academic, state, public and
special libraries; consideration of the ongoing debate about
the opposing philosophies of freedom of access to information
versus a feebased information service; the information