Information Systems Process and Practice

• Main Authors: Urquhart, Christine, Hamad, Faten, Tbaishat, Dina, Yeoman, Alison
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London Facet Publishing 2017
• Edition: 1
• Series: iResearch Series
• Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General; Management information systems

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 inf...

Table of Contents:

• Information systems process and practice -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Series editor’s foreword -- About the authors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Approaches to information architecture -- Chapter 3: Taxonomy testing for information architecture -- Chapter 4: The enterprise website and its information structures -- Chapter 5: Analysing activities, roles and processes -- Chapter 6: Libraries and the organisation of library processes – a history of operational research, and the use of process modelling -- Chapter 7: Using Riva process modelling to study book acquisition in academic libraries -- Chapter 8: Workflow analysis and process mapping in US academic libraries -- Chapter 9: A theoretical framework for designing and evaluating semi-structured document triage interfaces -- Chapter 10: Resource discovery case studies -- Chapter 11: Increasing social connection through a community-of-practice inspired design -- Chapter 12: Methods for studying information provision, networking and communication in patient support groups -- Chapter 13: Health information systems: clinical data capture and document architecture -- Chapter 14: Producing systematic reviews and getting evidence to the clinician -- Index.
• Intro -- Title page -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Series editor's foreword -- About the authors -- CHAPTER 1: Introduction -- CHAPTER 2: Approaches to information architecture -- CHAPTER 3: Taxonomy testing for information architecture -- CHAPTER 4: The enterprise website and its information structures -- CHAPTER 5: Analysing activities, roles and processes -- CHAPTER 6: Libraries and the organisation of library processes - a history of operational research, and the use of process modelling -- CHAPTER 7: Using Riva process modelling to study book acquisition in academic libraries -- CHAPTER 8: Workflow analysis and process mapping in US academic libraries -- CHAPTER 9: A theoretical framework for designing and evaluating semi-structured document triage interfaces -- CHAPTER 10: Resource discovery case studies -- CHAPTER 11: Increasing social connection through a community-of-practice inspired design -- CHAPTER 12: Methods for studying information provision, networking and communication in patient support groups -- CHAPTER 13: Health information systems: clinical data capture and document architecture -- CHAPTER 14: Producing systematic reviews and getting evidence to the clinician -- Index