INFO 310 Applying HIB to information provision

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INFO 310Applying HIB to information provision

• Information Consolidation
• User Centered Design

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Information Consolidation Process

• Study of potential users
• Selection of information sources
• Evaluation of information
• Analysis
• Restructuring
• Packaging and/or repackaging
• Diffusion or dissemination
• Feedback

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Consolidated information is...

• public knowledge available through the published
  record documented for a particular group of
  users
• specifically selected and analyzed
• possibly restructured and repackaged
• where the criteria for selection, evaluation,
  repackaging, restructuring are all derived from
  the potential user group

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Information consolidation

• The process of evaluating and modifying
  information from relevant sources in order to
  provide defined user groups with new information
  products and services that meet their information
  needs

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Information consolidation

• Set in the marketing and user oriented
  framework...
• identifying user needs
• identifying gaps in the provision of products and
  services to meet those needs
• closing gaps by developing appropriate products
  or services

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The purposes of information consolidation...

• to meet the information needs of a target group
  based on
• a knowledge of their needs
• a knowledge of the criteria that the target group
  use to evaluate information
• to overcome problems of
• information overload inappropriate levels of
  information inappropriate context of
  information inappropriate form untrustworthy
  information

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Information consolidation involves...

• Study of potential users
• Selection of information source(s) that
  potentially contain the most useful information
  for given user needs
• Evaluation of information in terms of its
  intrinsic merit, validity and reliability

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Information consolidation involves...

• Restructuring (if necessary) of extracted
  information into a content that can be used most
  effectively and efficiently by users
• Packaging and/or repackaging of restructured
  information in a form that will enhance the
  potential of its use

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Information consolidation involves...

• Diffusion or dissemination of information in ways
  that will encourage its use
• Feedback from users, evaluation of the
  information consolidation product and then making
  adjustments

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Key assumptions ...

• the ultimate purpose of the IC process and the IC
  product is that it will be used to satisfy an
  information need or resolve an information
  problem
• purposeful use value has been added - ultimately
  this value is assigned by the user who recognizes
  its usefulness in a given context
• things are known about potential users
• information behavior information needs
• information professionals must evaluate

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The IC process incorporates many of the roles of
an information professional

• Common functions of an information professional
  include ...
• identification of information need
• information search design
• retrieval of information
• evaluation of information
• synthesis of information
• packaging of information

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The IC process incorporates many of the roles of
an information professional

• repackaging of existing information products
• dissemination of information
• design and provision of information services
• Not so common functions ...
• evaluating the worth of information from a
  subject perspective
• restructuring and repackaging information from a
  subject perspective

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Processes in Information Consolidation