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Information Audits

Are they for you?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Guy Johnson
Guy Johnson
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‘Information Audits’, a term used and misused with increasing frequency, have a precise meaning and are of serious importance. Guy Johnson, who is a Researcher at TFPL, and Susan Dennis, Head of Library and Information Services at Charles Russell, explain what information auditing involves and give an insight into the process undertaken at Charles Russell.
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Extract

Although one can read differing accounts of what is involved in information auditing, most commentators would probably accept that audits are, in some form or another, a type of investigation undertaken for the purpose of optimising information use within organisations. In practice this can range from the compilation of a straightforward inventory of published materials to an analysis of information use and flow across the whole of an organisation's operations. Despite differences in scope, most audits are likely to consist of a survey of the organisation combined with some form of gap analysis.

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Research Article
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , Winter 2001 , pp. 14 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2001

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