ABSTRACT

Information management concerns the control over how information is created, acquired, organized, stored, distributed, and used as a means of promoting efficient and effective information access, processing, and use by people and organizations. Various perspectives of information management exist. For this entry, three are presented: the organizational, library, and personal perspectives. Each deals with the management of some or all of the processes involved in the information life cycle. Each concerns itself with the management of different types of information resources. The purpose of this entry is to clearly describe what “information management” is and to clarify how information management differs in regards to closely related terms.