BSBINS403 - Obtain information from external and networked sources
Overview
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to establish the information needs of relevant stakeholders, and then search external and networked sources to meet those needs.The unit applies to those who are working in library services within established guidelines and under general supervision. They may be working in public, school, medical, law, business, or academic libraries. Requests relate to information that cannot be satisfied from sources within the organisation.
Assessment
For Melbourne campuses
Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, incl the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.
Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
*respond to a request for an inter-library loan
*respond to a request for a document delivery
*request an inter-library loan
*request a document delivery.
In the course of the above, the candidate must:
*communicate effectively and efficiently with relevant stakeholders
*use external sources and bibliographic tools, including electronic sources, to obtain different types of information
*search external sources effectively to meet a range of different information needs.
Required reading
The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.
As part of a course
This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.