Information Architecture for Information Professionals
- 1st Edition - February 28, 2007
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- Author: Susan Batley
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 8 4 3 3 4 - 2 3 2 - 8
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 8 4 3 3 4 - 2 3 3 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 1 0 7 - 3
This book covers the key aspects of information architecture: core elements of information management, indexing, cataloguing and classification - organising and recording… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis 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
Practitioners and students of Library and Information Science
Information architecture: An introduction; The preliminaries; Searching and finding; Documents and document description; Interface and display design; Management and maintenance; Evaluation.
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 28, 2007
- No. of pages (eBook): 236
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9781843342328
- Hardback ISBN: 9781843342335
- eBook ISBN: 9781780631073
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Susan Batley
Dr Susan Batley is a senior lecturer at the London Metropolitan University with teaching and research in the areas of organisation and retrieval of information and knowledge resources. Having completed a PhD on factors affecting the retrieval of information from picture databases in 1989, she worked as a subject librarian at the University of East London, before taking up her current post in 1996. Dr Batley is the author of another Chandos book, Classification in Theory and Practice.
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