THE INFORMATION SOCIETY: CONCEPTION, PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS, CHARACTERISTICS

Abstract

The article deals with a concept definition for “the information society” based on the analysis of theories by foreign and domestic scientists. The author suggests his own definition, principal components and characteristics of informational society as a qualitatively new stage of human progress, when every person may get, work with and disperse information and a state guarantees a high level of informatization of the whole area of life. Libraries play an active part in the building of the information society as far as they create their own informational and digital resources, introduce new informational and communicative technologies, ensure reader intellectual freedom.

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Yu. Ye. Petrukhno

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Yu. Ye. Petrukhno (2014). THE INFORMATION SOCIETY: CONCEPTION, PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS, CHARACTERISTICS. Вісник Одеського національного університету. Бібліотекознавство, бібліографознавство, книгознавство, 19(1), 127-133. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-399678