A Model Curriculum for Security Aspects in IT Education

Abstract

The wide use of computer and communicating systems in the recent past facilitated the design and development of ‘integrated library (information) systems’. Dr Ralph Halsted Parker, pioneer in library mechanization coined the term `Library Information Systems (LIS)' around 1968, envisioned LIS as not only ‘automating’ existing library procedures, such as circulation, cataloguing, etc., but also providing access to materials held electronically even by other libraries and information centers across the globe. Currently, the systems librarians have been endeavouring to develop ‘Integrated Library Systems’ (ILS), by creating the technologic landscape for supporting and enhancing end-user access to digitally recorded document surrogates and content. Analysing and designing an LIS aims at enhancing patron satisfaction by providing just-in-time access to appropriate information. Survey findings across North America and Europe reveal that the rationale for migrating from one system to another is for increased functionality of library’s information system for the benefit of end-user, sidelining the cost issues. This article describes system selection processes and procedures, and other planning and decision-making issues and factors associated with the design and development of an ILS. http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dbit.25.5.3666