2004SpringQ3

Question #3
You have been hired by an information provider (library or provider in some environment of your choice) in your favorite subject area. You discover that while it has been accumulating a collection of materials in the subject (periodicals, reports, books, videos, websites), the staff has been too busy and understaffed to provide access to it. The material and printouts have just been placed on shelves in a conference room, primarily in the order they have arrived. The CEO has indicated that she wants an information center of some sort for access to the information, but she is vague on specifics. a. Briefly describer your information provider. b. Identify and describe the steps you will follow to bring order to this chaos. Defend why is each step is important. c. Describe the structure of the access methods that you will build. How will the methods improve information retrieval?