Information repackaging is very necessary in Public Libraries to fulfill user needs of all categories.

1. Packaging and Repackaging
Information for Community Use

2. Introduction
Information explosion, speeded up by developments in ICT, is
associated with lack of time and skills needed to search for,
retrieve, interpret, synthesis and apply information (eg. in decision-
making), resulting into failure to take full advantage of the
abundance of information at disposal.

3. Introduction…
Consequently, librarians need to design information services for
such clientele based on diagnosis of their information needs,
customising or “repackaging” information to match the needs and
convenience of the user.
Information repackaging then entails a systematic process of
adding value to information services.

4. Introduction…
These value added components would include but are not limited
to information analysis, synthesis, editing, translating and
transforming its symbolic and media formats.
IR also ensures the currency, accuracy, pertinence,
comprehensiveness, ease of comprehension (e.g. technical level,
presentation style); and convenience of use (e.g. timing, format of
coding).

5. Introduction…
Repackaging services, therefore are the result of attempts to cope
with the information explosion and the competition for fast, reliable,
convenient and efficient information support for corporate decision-
making.
IR services signal an on-going shift in library and information
professions from documents to their content and from collections to
their users, “customised information services”

6. Information Packaging &
Repackaging: Definitions
Packaging of information is a physical recording, arrangement and
presentation of information on a given medium and in a given form.
Repackaging of information is rearrangement of physical media in
which information has been presented, which is tailored to the
requirements of a specific clientele.

7. Definitions…
Information repackaging involves selection, analysing, and
processing information with a view of communicating a message in
a convenient and effective form to a target audience defined for the
purpose (Dongardive, 2013)
In other words, repackaging of information refers to the
presentation of information in more understandable, readable,
acceptable and usable forms.

8. The Aim of Repackaging
The aim of repackaging is to enhance the acceptance and use of
information products and the assimilation and recall of their
contents.
It is a systematic process of adding value to information services.

9. Functions of Repackaging
1. As a saving tool. Information repackaging can save time, labour,
and cost of the user.
2. As a systematic and selective sorter of useful information.
3. As a means for more extensive information transmission and
delivery
4. As a translation tool.
5. As a means for the prompt delivery of relevant information.

10. Meeting user demands
In order to design the repackaging, it is essential to have specific
information about the target audience so as to collect, process and
apply the required information and design and repackage of
information according to user demands.
The process of repackaging begins with the selection of information
and evaluation of content in line with the needs of users.

11. Requirements for Repackaging
Information
Sturges and Chimsen (1996) list three requirements for
repackaging information:
1. The materials should be collected and organised efficiently
2. There should be the capacity to analyse their content and create
new information packages from them.
3. The new products should be disseminated freely.

12. Strategies for Information
Repackaging
1. Current Awareness Services (CAS)
This is system for reviewing newly available documents,
selecting items relevant to the need of an individual or group
and recording them so that notification may be sent to those
individuals or groups to whose needs they are related.
CAS involves making accession or acquisition lists,
bibliographies, etc.

13. Strategies…
2.SelectiveDisseminationof Information(SDI)
“It is an anticipatory service which involves channeling of new
information to researchers, individuals, or groups on the basis of
their pre-determined needs and interests. SDI is a modification of
CAS.
Is a personal CAS providing researchers with the latest
publications on a specific research topic.

14. Strategies…
3. Translation of Materials
Language barrier is one of the greatest challenge to the flow of
information thus the translation of materials is one of the important
techniques in repackaging of information

15. Strategies…
4. Data Compilation and Processing
Data in quantitative and statistical forms can be made available in a
more understandable form by using tables, bar charts, pie charts,
etc.
Such forms of arrangement display data more meaningfully and
facilitates comparison between them.

16. Other IR Strategies
1. Drama
2. Storytelling
3. The use of songs
4. Audio–visual materials
5. Oral transmission
6. Poetry
7. Social media etc.

17. REFERENCE
Dongardive, P. (2013). Information repackaging
in library services. International Journal of
Science and Research (IJSR), 2(11), 204-209.