Information Policy: United States

• Autores: Peter Hernon, Harold C. Relyea
• Localización: Encyclopedia of library and information sciences / coord. por Marcia J. Bates, Vol. 4, 2010 (Information Management-Lesbian), págs. 2504-2518
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Information policy, a field encompassing both public policy and information science, treats information as both a commodity - adheres to the economic theory of property rights - and a resource to be collected, protected, shared, manipulated, and managed. Although the literature often refers to information policy in the singular, there is no single all-encompassing policy. Rather, information policies tend to address specific issues and, at times, to be fragmented, overlapping, and contradictory