What Exactly Is the 'Information Industry'?

Information has never been more important in business. The information industry supports the development, use, acquisition and management of information and includes:

• Corporate and special libraries
  
  
• Content vendors (databases)
  
  
• Content aggregators
  
  
• Publishers and the media
  
  

In the Information Age, most workers have an information component to their jobs, whether or not they consider themselves information professionals. Today's organisations have traditional information jobs (such as Information Officer, Knowledge Manager, CIO, Corporate Librarian, etc.), but also a wide range of workers who interact with information every day in the following ways:

• Finding Information: search and research for internal and external information
  
  
• Using Information: analysis and interpretation of information to support better decision-making and advice
  
  
• Managing Information: record-keeping, compliance, organisation, sorting and retrieval
  
  
• Sharing Information: communication, publishing, training, and presenting
  
  

Our practice area portals in FUMSI show how different projects and skills relate to the work we all do every day.

The FreePint Family supports this information industry with practical, hands-on resources to help information workers of all kinds be more effective in their jobs and more valuable to their organisations.

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