The Role of the Libraries in the Information Society

Abstract

After the transition to the information society, our world is in a fast and massive transformation in social, cultural, political and economical terms. This transformation process affects almost all organizational structures. One of the structures that is affected of this process is the library with its culturally and socially organizational characteristics as they collect, preserve and serve the information; spot the information as the focus and eventually aim to meet the information needs of the society. The aim of this study is to examine the information society fact as well as determining the effects of the transition to the information society on the libraries and to give information of the status of the libraries in the information society.