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Evidence Guide: CULLB505C - Analyse and describe information materials

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Tips for gathering evidence to demonstrate your skills

The important thing to remember when gathering evidence is that the more evidence the better - that is, the more evidence you gather to demonstrate your skills, the more confident an assessor can be that you have learned the skills not just at one point in time, but are continuing to apply and develop those skills (as opposed to just learning for the test!). Furthermore, one piece of evidence that you collect will not usualy demonstrate all the required criteria for a unit of competency, whereas multiple overlapping pieces of evidence will usually do the trick!

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CULLB505C - Analyse and describe information materials

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Identify description requirements

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Identify scope and likely uses of material

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Assess customer requirements or expectations, including potential special needs

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Determine appropriate type and structure of description

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Analyse material

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Use analysis and description tools, standards, precedents and techniques which are appropriate to the nature of the material

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Analyse subject content of the material and clearly distinguish significant information from minor references

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Integrate established general concepts and principles of description and knowledge of relevant standards and authorities

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Ensure concepts derived from analysis of material are appropriate in the context of the subject field

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Describe material and format description

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Create description/s which represent concepts appropriately, and which reflect the overall purpose and intended use of the description

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Conform format of description to general conventions and any special rules

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Where required, develop accurate reference structure of descriptors to display relationships to assist customers

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Where appropriate, enhance description to meet identified customer needs

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Monitor and review analysis and description practices and procedures

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In consultation with colleagues, undertake monitoring and review description practices and procedures regularly to ensure customer needs are being met and in response to industry developments

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Take appropriate action within scope of individual responsibility to enhance description practices and procedures

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Where required, check descriptions regularly for internal consistency and compliance with established structure, rules and authorities

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Instructions to Assessors

Evidence Guide

The Evidence Guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria, required skills and knowledge, range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package.

Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit

Evidence of the following is essential:

ability to appropriately use tools, standards and communication skills to analyse and describe material appropriately

knowledge of principles of subject access

demonstration of skills using current industry systems to analyse and describe a range of different materials.

Context of and specific resources for assessment

Assessment must ensure:

access to relevant policies and procedures manuals

access to relevant thesauri and database programs.

Method of assessment

A range of assessment methods should be used to assess practical skills and knowledge. The following examples are appropriate for this unit:

direct questioning combined with review of portfolios of evidence and third party workplace reports of on-the-job performance by the candidate

evaluation of appropriateness of descriptions created by the candidate and adaptations to suit different types of information

oral or written questioning to assess knowledge of standards and tools.

Holistic assessment with other units relevant to the industry sector, workplace and job role is recommended, for example:

CULLB506C Catalogue and classify material.

Required Skills and Knowledge

Required skills

communication skills to accurately and appropriately describe a wide range of potentially complex information

critical thinking skills to apply analysis and description tools to a wide range of different information types of varying complexity

literacy skills to interpret and analyse a wide range of references

numeracy skills to work with indexing concepts.

Required knowledge

principles of subject access

principles of thesauri used in indexing

types of indexes and abstracts

abstracting and indexing standards and methods, including descriptions and cross referencing of access points and descriptors

allocating descriptors, major and minor

ways of matching reference structure to suit customer needs

ways of enhancing subject access through indexing

monitoring and review processes for indexes and abstracts

copyright, moral rights and intellectual property issues and legislation that impact on indexing and abstracting activities.

Range Statement

The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.

Scope and likely use of material may relate to:

subject matter

available time

available space

probable types of users, e.g. professional, educational, recreational

express brief or document format

Customer requirements or expectations for consideration may include:

access

current awareness

retrospective inquiry

description of contents of materials

translation from one language to another

Analysis and description tools, techniques and standards may include:

SCIS Subject Headings and thesauri

LCSH Library of Congress Subject Headings

Description/s may be:

indicative

informative

critical

assigned from a prescribed list or thesaurus, e.g. ERIC, AEI

taken from pre-existing formulations

derived from text or context

formulated to meet identified customers needs

In manual indexes, entries may be ordered:

alphabetically

numerically

alphanumerically

taxonomically

chronologically

according to traditional rules or conventions

General conventions may include:

bibliographic organisation/descriptions

geographic descriptions

Monitor and review processes may include:

surveys

customer feedback

statistics