Information sciences and technology (archives and records)
12 points * First semester * Clayton
This subject provides a theoretical base - a body of general principles - for practice in the recordkeeping professions, drawing on traditional records management and archival approaches and information science. It explores how and why professional practice has evolved as it has, enabling students to distil from reading, study, classwork and practical exercises a framework of ideas on recordkeeping and archival science. It also introduces information technology and its impact, applications and potential in relation to recordkeeping in the context of the re-invention of archival science.
Assessment
Document analysis: 15% * Class debate: 15% * Essay assignment: 40% * Analysis of systems or guides: 30%
Prescribed texts
Ellis J (ed.) Keeping archives 2nd edn, W D Thorpe, 1993