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describe the activities and products of information analysis centers?

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Information analysis and consolidation

1. Information Analysis & Consolidation Somipam R. Shimray Research Scholar (JRF) Dept. of LIS Pondicherry Central University Pondicherry India

2. Contents • Conceptual • Information Analysis activities • Information Consolidation • Objectives of Information Consolidation • Why Information consolidation • Who needs them • Information Analysis and Consolidation Process • Planning and Management of IAC Centers • IAC centers in India • IAC - Benefits • Conclusions • References

3. Conceptual • Information is: – Processed data – Organized data for a purpose – Presented within a context that gives it meaning • Information is valuable because it can affect behavior and a decision. Example: – A single student percentage (40, 60, 80) is a data but an average student percentage (60) is an information.

4. Information Analysis What is Analysis? • A systematic examination and evaluation of data or information, by breaking it into its components parts to uncover their relationships. • An examination of data and facts to uncover and understand cause- effect relationships, thus providing basis for problem solving and decision making. Why analysis? • Because the data you collect can't help you if you don't understand it and use it to shape your decisions. Information Analysis • Information analysis comprises a wide range of functions, such as abstracting, indexing, translation, reviewing, consolidating etc.

5. Information Analysis activities • Involves gathering quantitative data about products, processes, and projects and analyzing that data to influence your actions and plans. Information analysis activities allow you to: • Characterize, or gain understanding of your processes, products, resources, and environments. • Evaluate, to determine your status with respect to your plans. • Predict, by understanding relationships among processes and products so the values you observe for some attributes can be used to predict others. • Improve, by identifying roadblocks, root causes, inefficiencies, and other opportunities for improvement.

6. Information Consolidation • Information consolidation is defined as the process of evaluation and compression of relevant documents in order to provide definite user groups with reliable and concise information in usable form. • UNESCO Symposium on Information Analysis and Consolidation in Sri-Lanka has given the following definition : “ Information Consolidation activities are used to define the responsibility exercised by individuals, departments or organizations for evaluating and compressing relevant documents in order to provide definite users’ groups with reliable and concise new bodies of knowledge. Individuals or groups of individuals performing consolidation activities would each constitute an Information consolidation Unit.”

7. Objectives of Information Consolidation The basic objectives of Information Consolidation can be enumerated as follows: • To increase the effectiveness of information transfer to the target audience; • To make the required information reach larger audience in accessible and usable form; and • To encourage more intensive use of information in wide range of developmental activities.

8. Why Information consolidation? • Exponential growth of information and increasing rate of obsolescence: Users have inadequate time reading and assimilating new information; • Interdisciplinary nature of information leading to scattering and seepage of information: Users can specialize only in restricted subject fields; • Wide variation in quality and reliability of information: Users find it difficult and have inadequate time for evaluating and selecting the right information; • Information is presented in multiplicity of languages: Users are not familiar with the language(s) to use the information; • Information presented in a wide range of standards and formats: Users may not be familiar with that standard or format to use the information; • Required information is published in documents with restricted circulation: Leading to inaccessibility of information; and • S &T information is highly technical in nature with technical and trade jargons: Potential user with no technical background cannot comprehend it.

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