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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822442003321

Titolo

Information systems ; : process and practice / / edited by Christine Urquhart, Faten Hamad, Dina Tbaishat, Alison Yeoman [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Facet, , 2018

ISBN

1-78330-241-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

iResearch series

Disciplina

025.04

Soggetti

Information services - Management

Management information systems

Library administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2018).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Christine Urquhart -- Approaches to information architecture / Faten Hamad -- Taxonomy testing for information architecture / Christine Urquhart -- The enterprise website and its information structures / Sally Burford -- Analysing activities, roles and processes / Christine Urquhart and dina Tbaishat -- Libraries and the organisation of library processes-a history of operational research, and the use of process modelling / Dina Tbaishat -- Using Riva process modelling to study book acquisition in academic libraries / Dina Tbaishat -- Workflow analysis and process mapping in U.S. academic libraries / Christine Urquhart -- A theoretical framework for designing and evaluating semi-structured document triage interfaces / Fernando Loizides and Aekaterini Mavri -- Resource discovery case studies / Karen Colbron and Christine Urquhart -- Increasing social connection through a community-of-practice-inspired design / Catherine M. Burns and Adam Euerby -- Methods for studying information provision, networking and communication in patient support groups / Cristina Vasilica and Paula Ormandy -- Health information systems: clinical data capture and document architecture / Faten Hamad -- Producing systematic reviews and getting evidence to the clinician / Faten Hamad.

Sommario/riassunto

This book adopts a holistic interpretation of information architecture,



to offer libraries and information professionals a variety of methods, tools, and techniques that may be used when designing websites and information systems that support workflows and what people require when "managing information".