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Universities and colleges exist to create, manufacture, consume, manage, discuss and disseminate information. It influences every aspect of university life, but is so pervasive that it is rarely seen as something to be considered formally. Recent pressure on universities to create information strategies has led to a new focus on the institutional management of everything from examination questions to research results and student records. In this book, experts from a range of universities consider the issues which universities and colleges have to face in dealing with information. The role of information and what institutions need to do is considered in relation to the major activities of administration, research and teaching.
Managing Information is a key resource for both general managers and specialist information managers (of libraries and computer services) in colleges and universities.
List of contents
Preface
The international framework of information policies
Information
the UK national scene
Management of information in further and higher education
Information strategies
The administrator and information
Managing information in research
Applying technology to learning
Intellectual property rights
Towards the electronic library
Endnote
Index.
About the author
Professor Judith Elkin is the Dean of the Faculty of Computing, Information and English, University of Central England in Birmingham. At UCE, she heads a team of academics and researchers, concerned with communication in the widest sense, highlighting the importance of access to information and information-handling in the world today. Judith is a member of the Library and Information Commission and its Research Committee. She was a member of the UK's Research Assessment Exercise panel for Library and Information Management in 1992 and 1996 and is Chair of the 2001 panel.
Professor Derek Law is Director of Information Strategy at the University of Strathclyde. He was a founder member of the Association for Learning and Teaching and chaired the UK's 1992 and 1996 Research Assessment Exercise panels in Library and Information Management. A Visiting Professor both at Sheffield University and the University of Central England, he is a regular author and lecturer on topics related to information management and the information society. He is at present a member of the Library and Information Commission and is Treasurer of the International Federation of Library Associations.
Summary
Universities and colleges exist to create, manufacture, consume, manage, discuss and disseminate information. It influences every aspect of university life, but is so pervasive that it is rarely seen as something to be considered formally. This work considers the issues which universities and colleges have to face in dealing with information.
