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information center

[‚in·fər′mā·shən ‚sen·tər]
(communications)
Center designed specifically for storing, processing, and retrieving information for dissemination at regular intervals, on demand or selectively, according to express needs of users.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

information center

A division within the IT department that supports end-user computing. It is responsible for training users in applications and solving related personal computer problems. The term was widely used when personal computers exploded onto the scene in the 1980s. Today, the term may refer to any type of information source, which is precisely what it sounds like.
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The visitor center was designed as a sloping two-story building with spirals on the exterior that mimic sea waves, the tourism bureau said, adding that the plaza outside contains art installations shaped like fiddler crabs and shells.
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All day Saturday, a large display of edible and poisonous mushrooms will be shown at the Cape Perpetua Visitor Center. Mushroom experts will be on hand to answer questions and help novices identify their finds.
The Visitor Center was chosen for its outstanding performance, outstanding economic impact, quality and effective marketing, impressive attendance figures, and involvement in Iowa tourism initiatives.
But as Brett Jenks, president of RARE Center for Tropical Conservation, observes, "No one comes halfway across the world just to see a visitor center." According to a recent nationwide tourist survey in Costa Rica, visitors most want the basics: decent restrooms, bilingual directional signs, simple interpretive exhibits and literature, security, trained naturalist guides and access roads.
While residents may prosper from such influxes of people and spending, their current dilemma is how the proposed visitor center would affect their lives and livelihoods.
Fulong Visitor Center is within an easy walking distance from TRA Fulong Station.
Meet at the visitor center. Blackstone River and Canal Heritage State Park.
Diageo USVI, a US-based private-public partnership that operates a rum distillery, St Croix, has announced the opening of a Captain Morgan Visitor Center.
Howell was chosen for the small-medium new project category for the work completed on the New York Botanical Garden Visitor Center.
A new visitor center brings life to San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.
As part of the ongoing restoration of Fort Ross, a lofty new visitor center gives an overview of this state historic park, a 2-hour drive north of San Francisco on the Sonoma coast.
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