Organizational models for managing academic information

The organizational model chosen by an LIS for managing academic information is informed by cultural assumptions about the nature of information, of information staff, of infomation users, and about the relationships between them. The chosen model, in turn, creates, strengthens or perpetuates the cultural assumptions it embodies. This chapter explores the principal models used (defined primarily by the subject versus function expertise polarity) and their cultural consequences in interaction with professionalism.