Convenient and cost effective — our web-based information clearinghouse solutions are tightly integrated and can disseminate information with a personal touch.
A clearinghouse is a resource center providing walk-in and online web-based information resources that are a convenient and cost effective way to promote a program and disseminate a wide variety of information to the public. Phone support, research support, document reproduction and document storage services are often provided by clearinghouses. A self-service, website offers the fastest manner to make documents, posters, videos, and other materials available to the public. When a website is combined with a 1-800 call-in support center, specific citizen inquiries can be responded to with a personal touch.
Clearinghouse operations, auxiliary areas of support such as: database management; document inventory and dissemination; records management; CD-ROM publication and distribution; Thesaurus development and maintenance; document cataloguing, abstracting, and indexing; and Website development and maintenance.
For the US Agency for International Development (USAID), LTS converted thousands of documents that report and describe the results of each development experience project around the world to electronic media now accessible via a searchable online web site called the Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC). LTS developed the website that provides these documents, previously available only in paper or microfiche format so a requestor waited for the document to be located and mailed. Requestors now easily locate, view, and download documents by subject, country, title, author, date, project number and other information. The files are generally in .pdf format. The USAID Clearinghouse processes approximately 4 million document downloads per year to requestors across the world.
Clearinghouse Services
- Records and Document Management
- Web-based Solutions
- Database Management
- Thesaurus Development