Information management
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- For the use of the term "Information Management" to refer to the political manipulation of public opinion, see Spin (politics).
Information management is the handling of information acquired by one or many disparate sources in a way that optimizes access by all who have a share in that information or a right to that information.
Through the 1970's this was largely limited to files, file maintenance, and life cycle management of paper and a small number of other media. With the proliferation of information technology starting in the 1970's, the job of information management took on a new light. No longer was information management a simple job that could be performed by almost anyone. An understanding of the technology and the theory behind it became necessary, as information was ever more stored via electronic means. By the late 1990's when information was regularly disseminated across computers and other electronic devices, information managers found themselves tasked with increasingly complex devices. With the latest tools available, information management has become a powerful resource for organizations.
Within the United States Air Force Information Managers receive the Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) of 3A0X1.
External links
Kirk, Joyce (1999) "Information in organisations: directions for information management" Information Research, 4(3) Available at: http://informationr.net/ir/4-3/paper57.html (Revised version in Macevičiūtė, E. and Wilson, T.D. (2005). Introducting information management: an Information Research reader. London: Facet Publishing. pp. 3-17.)
Macevičiūtė, Elena and Wilson, T.D. (2002) The development of the information management research area. Information Research, 7(3) Available at: http://InformationR.net/ir/7-3/paper133.html (Revised version in Macevičiūtė, E. and Wilson, T.D. (2005). Introducting information management: an Information Research reader. London: Facet Publishing. pp. 18-30.)
Wilson, T.D. (2002) Information management, In:John Feather and Paul Sturges (Eds.) International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science, 2nd ed. London: Routledge. (http://informationr.net/tdw/publ/papers/encyclopedia_entry.html)