Information Analysis Center (IAC)

"Committee on Scientific and Technical Information" (1968) defines IAC:

"An information analysis center is a formally structured organizational unit specifically (but not necessarily exclusively) established for the purpose of acquiring, selecting, storing, retrieving, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing a body of information and/or data in a clearly defined specialized field or pertaining to a specified mission with the intent of compiling, digesting, repackaging, or otherwise organizing and presenting pertinent information and/or data in a form most authoritative, timely, and useful to a society of peers and management".

 

Literature:

Carroll, B & Maskewitz, B. F. (1980). Information analysis centers. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 15, 147-189.

Federal Council for Science and Technology. Committee on Scientific and Technical Information. Directory of Federally Supported Information Analysis Centers. Washington, D.C.: April 1968.  (PB-177 050).

Klinefelter, P. M. (1991). CENTERS FOR ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL-INFORMATION  (Information Analysis Centers). Government Information Quarterly, 8(2), 175-182.

Westler, J. A. (1987). HEALTH INFORMATION ANALYSIS CENTERS, CLEARINGHOUSES, AND OTHER SPECIAL PROJECTS - FEDERAL HEALTH INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSES. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 38(1), 48-51.
 
Williams, R. V. (1987). SPECIAL-LIBRARIES VERSUS INFORMATION ANALYSIS CENTERS. Special Libraries, 78(4), 311 (Letter).