| dc.description.abstract | The number of information sources accessible through the Internet are ever increasing. Billions of documents
including text, pictures, sound, and video are readily available for both scholarly and every-day uses. Even
libraries and information centers with sizable budgets are having difficulties in coping with this increase.
More developed tools and methods are needed to find, filter, organize and summarize electronic information
sources. This paper is an overview of a wide variety of electronic information management issues ranging
from infrastructure to the integration of information technology and content, from personalization of
information services to “disintermediation.” It discusses the issues of description, organization, collection
management, preservation and archiving of electronic information and outlines Davenport’s “ecological
model” for information management and its components, namely, strategy, politics, behavior and culture,
staff, processes, and architecture. | |
