Information Architecture for Information Professionals

✍ Scribed by Susan Batley (Auth.)

• Publisher: Chandos Publishing
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Series: Chandos Information Professional Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book covers the key aspects of information architecture: core elements of information management, indexing, cataloguing and classification - organising and recording information in the digital environment. Information Architecture for Information Professionals also focuses on design, specifically user-centred design: designing information systems that support the needs of users, by providing attractive, intuitive interfaces that support a range of information tasks and accommodate a range of individual resources.

• Aimed at information professionals - existing texts in this emerging area are primarily aimed at web managers
• A straight forward introduction to the area

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
List of abbreviations, Page xi
List of figures, Pages xiii-xv
Preface, Pages xvii-xviii
About the author, Page xix
1 - Information architecture: an introduction, Pages 1-11
2 - The preliminaries, Pages 13-47
3 - Searching and finding, Pages 49-92
4 - Documents and document description, Pages 93-120
5 - Interface and display design, Pages 121-166
6 - Management and maintenance, Pages 167-177
7 - Evaluation, Pages 179-194
Appendix 1 - Dewey Decimal Schedules: extract, Page 195
Appendix 2 - Alphabetical listing, Pages 197-198
Appendix 3 - Thesaurus entries, Pages 199-205
Appendix 4 - Term tree, Page 207
Index, Pages 209-212