Presents the actual context regarding the information professionals' activities, bearing in mind the job market, which is getting more and more exigent and concern about information problems resolution. It defines information resource management, as well as the academic and operational approach, based on the Information Science theoretical assumptions. The main focus is the core content, related with the overall management of information resources, needed by individuals, groups and institutions. It stress the common processes regarding the information field shared by the information resources manager and others professionals, related the trinomy data, information and knowledge. Describes the skills and abilities needed by the information resources manager as well as the inherent difficulties concerning any professional approach to the information activities field.
Information science; Information resources management