collections

the personnel

agescies

abstracting and indexing services

training

"a new cultural technique" as well as "a necessity of our time"

Documents are pervasive in society and shape our lives.

The use of information and information behavior are understood as referring to the individual who would be like to informed.

The most common form of information-related behavior is simply noticing things, a minimally active role.

The use of documents may include fact-finding, information-seeking, or problem-solving.

the growth of information technology

complicated relationships within the social structures of professional practice and education

deeply rooted changes in the information services sector

the strong influence of technological modernism

the move to digital technology

information as knowledge

information as process

information as thing

approaches based on a concern with documents with signifying records: archives, bibliography, documentation, librarianship, records management

approaches based on finding uses for for formal techniques, whether mechanical or mathematical