Firstly the article analysis, the importance of information in the world today and the need to treat it from the market segmentation, introducing marketing as a tool able to develop products and services and to introduce them to this market changing and/or influencing its behavior. Secondly it presents the challenges that the information professional will face when they adopt the marketing tehniques, having as a base discussions already presented by the researchers Oliveira and Amaral. Finally it proposes the new paradigms of the present world and the marketing as a tool able to promote the approach and balance between the technique and the need of the user.
information and marketing; information professional; paradigms