Information and its Communication
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Development of all types is dependent on right decision. Right decision in turn depends on right information at the right time. Information communication involves the determination and evaluation of the information needs of the users, their information-gathering habits, the available sources of information and what they yield, communication of information through such services as Current Awareness Services as Current Awareness Service, Selective Dissemination of Information, Translation Services, Reprographic Services, etc. there is information explosion now. The problem today is how to cope with this huge and difficult-to-control mass of information. The qualitative aspect also cannot be ignored. How to provide a right user his right information by sorting out the core-information from ever-expanding mass of chaff is another problem. The processing, retrieving, evaluating and packaging of generated information is one aspect, communication of ‘pin-pointed, exhaustive and expeditious’ information to the scientists, specialists, decision-makers and other consumers is another, and more important one. Application of information Technology in retrieving, managing and disseminating the needed information among users has also become necessary.
This book aims to deal with all the important facets of the subject as the contents below in the Table of Contents.
Table of Contents
Preface to Second Edition
Preface to First Edition
1. Data, Information, Knowledge
2. Information Communication
3. Source of Information
4. Current Awareness Service
5. Selective Dissemination of Information
6. Index, Indexing and Indexing Services
7. Abstract, Abstracting and abstracting Services
8. Computer and Information Communication
9. Information Technology in Indian Context
10. Translation Services
11. Reprographic Services
12. Microforms in Communication
13. Internet Services
14. Contribution of National Documentation Centres
15. Role of International Organisations
16. International Information Systems
17. User Education
18. User’s Surveys
Index
Development of all types is dependent on right decision. Right decision in turn depends on right information at the right time. Information communication involves the determination and evaluation of the information needs of the users, their information-gathering habits, the available sources of information and what they yield, communication of information through such services as Current Awareness Services as Current Awareness Service, Selective Dissemination of Information, Translation Services, Reprographic Services, etc. there is information explosion now. The problem today is how to cope with this huge and difficult-to-control mass of information. The qualitative aspect also cannot be ignored. How to provide a right user his right information by sorting out the core-information from ever-expanding mass of chaff is another problem. The processing, retrieving, evaluating and packaging of generated information is one aspect, communication of ‘pin-pointed, exhaustive and expeditious’ information to the scientists, specialists, decision-makers and other consumers is another, and more important one. Application of information Technology in retrieving, managing and disseminating the needed information among users has also become necessary.
This book aims to deal with all the important facets of the subject as the contents below in the Table of Contents.
Table of Contents
Preface to Second Edition
Preface to First Edition
1. Data, Information, Knowledge
2. Information Communication
3. Source of Information
4. Current Awareness Service
5. Selective Dissemination of Information
6. Index, Indexing and Indexing Services
7. Abstract, Abstracting and abstracting Services
8. Computer and Information Communication
9. Information Technology in Indian Context
10. Translation Services
11. Reprographic Services
12. Microforms in Communication
13. Internet Services
14. Contribution of National Documentation Centres
15. Role of International Organisations
16. International Information Systems
17. User Education
18. User’s Surveys
Index
Publishers
Languages
English
Number of Pages
283