Culture In Information Management

“Culture in Information Management”

Abstract

This article seeks to suggest ways of understanding about the culture in information management. This discussion in this paper includes some of the culture in other organisations such as libraries and records management. Other than that, it also will provide some information about impacts of culture in libraries and records management to make it clear for reader to understand more about it. Information culture will always have a defining influence on how people share and use information.

Keywords : Information Management, Information Culture, Libraries, Record Management

1.0. Introduction

Culture is demonstrated in the form of values, norms, and the unwritten rules of behaviour, what is regarded

It describes how people find, use, organize, and share information as part of their normal work. Certain organizational policies or practices may act as obstructions to the effective use of information. The connection between information behaviour and norms is made explicit in the analysis of the cultural and social context of information seeking by Chatman on her studies of the information behaviours of the elderly women, working poor, prison inmates, and others. She creates a theory of normative behaviour to comprehend information behaviours like normative behaviour is the behaviour which is seen by inhabitants of a social world as most appropriate for the particular situation. Necessarily driven by mores and norms, normative behaviour provides a routine, and manageable, and predictable approach to everyday reality. Aspects of appeal or interest are those things which serve to justify and legitimize values, which exemplify social

Information Social norms make standards to judge ‘wrongness or rightness’ in social appearances. Norms giving people a way to measure what is normal in a specific context and at a specific time as they point the way to acceptable standards and codes of behaviour. Social types are the utter meanings given to members of a social world. They categorize persons and in doing to let the members of a small world have sensible clues to the ways in which they have to converse, behave, and share information. Worldview is a collective perception by members of a social world regarding those things which are considered unimportant and important. Worldview gives a collective approach to assess the importance of