NEWS

MAKE WAY FOR THE NEW GENERATION OF INFORMATION MANAGER

A new suite of postgraduate programs are set to expand and complement the hugely successful Graduate Certificate of Business Information Management program that commenced this year. These programs have been developed by the University of South Australia in collaboration with three funding partners: State Records of South Australia, the State Library of South Australia (both business units of the Department of Premier and Cabinet) and Fuji Xerox.

These innovative programs will enable librarians, records managers, archivists and business information management professionals to reinvent their careers and remain in touch with the latest digital approaches.

If you live outside of Adelaide or even Australia, the programs offer you the opportunity to study at your own pace by choosing to study part-time or full-time externally online in your own home! You can of course choose to study online externally or face-to-face if you live in Adelaide.

Entry requirements include a recognised University undergraduate degree plus two years of employment experience, not necessarily in the area of preferred study. Holders of a previous completed degree in Library Studies can be assessed for credit if the Library and Information Management option is chosen.

Programs now open for application are the:

• Master of Library and Information Management
• Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Management
• Master of Business Information Management
• Graduate Diploma in Business Information Management (3 specialisations)
• Graduate Certificate in Business Information Management (8 specialisations)

Director of the State Library of South Australia Mr. Alan Smith emphasised the importance of the programs in addressing a critical industry need.

“I have been particularly interested in supporting the Business Information Management course because I believe as do the rest of my colleagues that the State Library and indeed at libraries throughout Australia that there’s a great need for a course that brings together all the various strands of information management, record management, knowledge management. All those areas that up until now have been treated quite separately often with completely separate training courses, we believe that our need for libraries of the 21st Century needs to bring all of those areas together.

More and more we are finding that people need to have skills across that whole spectrum of knowledge management and records management that we can't separate out the needs for librarians, archivists, record managers, anymore. We need to bring those skills together in ways that enhance the service that we can give to all of our users - our growing band of users.

We are looking for people who graduate with a very clear understanding and knowledge of the ways in which their skills can be worked in the work environment. We are particularly keen to see people with a very active and strategic approach to records management, knowledge management and librarianship.”

For further details and information related to the Business Information Management programs please email Moira.Lawler@unisa.edu.au or visit the BIM website at www.unisa.edu.au/bim.