IMPLEMENTING AN INTEGRATED INFORMATION-CENTER IN AN ACADEMIC SETTING - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

The Integrated Information Center Project at the University of Minneso ta is a three-year federally funded project whose purpose is to implem ent and evaluate a model for integrating information delivery in a net worked campus environment. The concept of an integrated information ce nter envisioned an organizational entity which employed a variety of i nformation technologies to capture, integrate, and provide scholarly a nd administrative information resources to faculty and staff at the de partment level. The Integrated Information Center was viewed as an int ermediary organization between the department served and the various c ampus information systems responsible for delivering scholarly and adm inistrative information. This paper describes the implementation of th e integrated information center and discusses the organizational force s that both shaped its evolution and affected its mission.