Understand the need for information skills both for themselves and for their users. Graduates should be information literate and have the ability to educate their users as appropriate
| Cognitive skills Analysis, judgement, attention to detail |
Generic competencies Interpersonal sensitivity |
| Personal capabilities Influencing, lifelong learning and development, leadership |
Technical ability Technical application, technical knowledge |
| Business awareness | Practical elements Image |
Demonstrate knowledge of legal and regulatory issues and, where relevant, of statutory requirements and an ability to identify and apply appropriate measures to the creation, capture, storage, dissemination, retrieval and destruction of information within the statutory and regulatory framework
| Cognitive skills Analysis, judgement, attention to detail |
Generic competencies |
| Personal capabilities | Technical ability Technical knowledge |
| Business awareness | Practical elements Professional expertise |
Be familiar with the information sources, in an appropriate range of media and formats, and the ability to identify and use relevant ones effectively. This will include a knowledge of the structures that have created them and of the techniques necessary to access them, whether these be linguistic or technical skills
| Cognitive skills Analysis, judgement, attention to detail |
Generic competencies |
| Personal capabilities Decisiveness, initiative |
Technical ability Technical application, technical knowledge |
| Business awareness | Practical elements Professional expertise |
Information retrieval skills in the use of primary and secondary sources irrespective of medium
| Cognitive skills Analysis, judgement, attention to detail |
Generic competencies |
| Personal capabilities | Technical ability Technical application, technical knowledge |
| Business awareness | Practical elements Professional expertise |
The ability to create and use finding aids or retrieval tools and a knowledge and understanding of the techniques and standards for their creation
| Cognitive skills Analysis, judgement, attention to detail |
Generic competencies |
| Personal capabilities Decisiveness, initiative, creativity |
Technical ability Technical application, technical knowledge |
| Business awareness | Practical elements Professional expertise |
The ability to select and acquire materials appropriate to the needs of the users, and the skill to make informed decisions about what should be retained and what can be safely discarded without jeopardising the knowledge base of future generations
| Cognitive skills Analysis, judgement, attention to detail |
Generic competencies |
| Personal capabilities Decisiveness, initiative, creativity, achievement orientation |
Technical ability |
| Business awareness | Practical elements Professional expertise |
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