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Title: Placing Value on Information.
Author : Library Philosophy and Practice
Release Date : January 22, 2002
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 164 KB

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Introduction Society regards information as a commodity and the possession of it as an asset. Economists would like to account for information in the same way as physical assets, but no discipline has given us an accepted model for such treatment. Disciplines regard information differently, and it is more difficult to develop systems to measure information than physical commodities. The price system has been used to assign value to information, but does it provide the best means? Can librarians plan for the future, justifying increasing expenditures to their funding agencies, in the absence of a meaningful information measurement scheme?