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INFO 414
Systems, resources and services
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Information Systems
Are a type of communication
system which selects, organizes, stores, and disseminates public knowledge
for the purpose of communication of that knowledge to users.
Includes the users who interact
with the system, the designers who create the system and the information
professionals who select and organize the data and who interact with the
users as intermediaries.
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Information
resource
A source of information or data
regardless of format, location or purpose for which the source was developed
or established.
computer-based sources,
print-based sources, and undocumented sources such as interpersonal
sources, organisations, broadcast media, information services provided by
various organisations, user education activities and so on.
can
embrace the notion of information service which is frequently used to
indicate situations where a human intermediary is directly involved in the
provision of information.
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Information product
Customised information resource,
developed by an information provider in relation to a specific need, or
situation. The term is used in areas when the customising processes are
being considered. Otherwise, the more general term "information
resource" is used.
Can embrace the notion of
information service which is frequently used to indicate situations where a
human intermediary is directly involved in the provision of information.
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Information Service
A collection of information
systems brought together to meet the needs of a specified group of users and
employing a staff of human intermediaries in meeting that objective. (Allen,
1996, p. 19)