CHAPTER 2

What Questions Does Information Governance Help to Answer?

Information governance best practices help research libraries and other organizations to identify, manage, and protect their important data throughout all phases of their life cycle. Based on our experience, this understanding can be broken down into three general categories:

1. Knowing what information they need: Information governance helps research libraries to identify the types of information they need to operate effectively. One of the critical elements of this process is the inventory data assets, which include both the automated and the manual review of structured and unstructured data. This review can help librarians to make informed decisions about where to focus their ...

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