How to Manage Information: A Systems Approach

by Richard Palmer, Harvey Varnet

Overview

How to Manage Information is the first authoritative discussion of the techniques and evaluative procedures necessary for the successful development of an efficient information management system—or the improvement of an existing one. The entire process is presented in seven chapters, each one covering a step in the process of selecting and implementing a system, and the monitoring of a system's ability to meet its requirements. In addition, the book is packed with illustrative figures, from organizational and budget charts to sample inventory and systems requirements tables.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897746038
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/12/1990
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

RICHARD PHILLIPS PALMER is professor emeritus, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts. He has extensive international consulting experience, including the development of a satellite information system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and libraries in the Sultanate of Oman.

HARVEY VARNET is director of the University Library at Governors State University,University Park, Illinois. He has written extensively on various aspects of library and information science and has initiated extensive database searching programs at several campuses. During 1979-80, he taught in Nigeria on a Fulbright-Hays grant.

Editorial Reviews

A systems-approach methodology for coordinating, merging, or integrating organizational records, libraries, and archives in a cost- effective manner. Identifies types of information systems, and provides criteria for the eventual selection of the system. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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