B. Managing Information Resources

Information professionals have expertise in total management of information resources, including identifying, selecting, evaluating, securing and providing access to pertinent information resources. These resources may be in any media or format. Information professionals recognize the importance of people as a key information resource.

B.1	Manages the full life cycle of information from its creation or acquisition through its destruction. This includes organizing, categorizing, cataloguing, classifying, disseminating; creating and managing taxonomies, intranet and extranet content, thesauri etc.
B.2	Builds a dynamic collection of information resources based on a deep understanding of clients' information needs and their learning, work and/or business processes.
B.3	Demonstrates expert knowledge of the content and format of information resources, including the ability to critically evaluate, select and filter them.
B.4	Provides access to the best available externally published and internally created information resources and deploys content throughout the organization using a suite of information access tools.
B.5	Negotiates the purchase and licensing of needed information products and services.
B.6	Develops information policies for the organization regarding externally published and internally created information resources and advises on the implementation of these policies.

Applied Scenarios

• IPs are experts in identifying the best information resources, comparing free versus fee resources to determine if value-added features warrant the cost, examining features of resources available from multiple vendors, and providing access to those resources for the organization by negotiating cost-effective contracts with vendors.

• IPs select and secure information resources that are appropriate in terms of format, language, content, coverage and that provide special features that tailor the content and retrieval capabilities to specific needs of the user group;

• IPs may work together to provide group pricing or other cooperative arrangements both inside and outside the organization that provide the maximum value for the investment made.

• IPs integrate externally published and internally created information resources as well as knowledge resources to create new client-specific information collections and sources.

• IPs may use off-the-shelf information products recognizing that these products could require modifications to meet the needs of specific user groups; IPs then select or design and implement the required modifications.

• IPs select, preserve and make accessible technical reports, standards, best practices guidelines and other internal documents for ongoing use.

• IPs establish document retention schedules and access procedures to meet regulatory requirements.

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