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Electronic information delivery : ensuring quality and value / edited by Reva Basch.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Aldershot : Gower, c1995.Description: viii,264pISBN:
  • 9780566075674 :
  • 0566075679 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 025.04 BAS
Contents:
Part I.Database production -- 1.nformation manufacturing: a historical view of quality engineering. Stephen E. Arnold -- 2.Standardizing online information: an impossibility? Sophie K. Hudnut -- 3.Quality issues in information retrieval: a publishers perspective. Anne Mintz -- 4.Assuring data integrity and quality: a database producer's perspective. Earl Beutler -- 5.Application of TQM to the continuous improvement of database production. Barbara Lawrence and Tony Lenti -- Part II.Role of the search for intermediary -- 6.Quality assurance in the information service environment. Kristin K. Oberts -- 7.Better searching through better searchers. Barbara Quint -- Part III.Quality testing -- 8.Priorities of quality. Carol Tenopir -- 9.Testing the quality of CD-ROM databases. Peter Jacsoþ -- Part IV.Liability issues -- 10.Selected aspects of legal liabilities of independent information professionals. T.R. Halvorson -- 11.Database quality and liability: the UK campaign. Sandy Norman -- Part V.The role of user groups -- 12.Evaluating the quality of Finnish databases. Ritva Juntunen -- 13.The eye of the beholder. C. J. Armstrong -- 14.Quality issues in the information sector: an international perspective with particular reference to the European scene. Alan Gilchrist.
Summary: This volume looks at the progress of quality initiatives which were set up in the 1990s to review database performance. It describes the issues involved in designing and implementing high quality electronic and online products, and describes the shortcomings of many current products.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 025.04 BAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 108927

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I.Database production -- 1.nformation manufacturing: a historical view of quality engineering. Stephen E. Arnold -- 2.Standardizing online information: an impossibility? Sophie K. Hudnut -- 3.Quality issues in information retrieval: a publishers perspective. Anne Mintz -- 4.Assuring data integrity and quality: a database producer's perspective. Earl Beutler -- 5.Application of TQM to the continuous improvement of database production. Barbara Lawrence and Tony Lenti -- Part II.Role of the search for intermediary -- 6.Quality assurance in the information service environment. Kristin K. Oberts -- 7.Better searching through better searchers. Barbara Quint -- Part III.Quality testing -- 8.Priorities of quality. Carol Tenopir -- 9.Testing the quality of CD-ROM databases. Peter Jacsoþ -- Part IV.Liability issues -- 10.Selected aspects of legal liabilities of independent information professionals. T.R. Halvorson -- 11.Database quality and liability: the UK campaign. Sandy Norman -- Part V.The role of user groups -- 12.Evaluating the quality of Finnish databases. Ritva Juntunen -- 13.The eye of the beholder. C. J. Armstrong -- 14.Quality issues in the information sector: an international perspective with particular reference to the European scene. Alan Gilchrist.

This volume looks at the progress of quality initiatives which were set up in the 1990s to review database performance. It describes the issues involved in designing and implementing high quality electronic and online products, and describes the shortcomings of many current products.

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