This document provides an overview of electronic information management and the information industry. It defines electronic information management and discusses its goals of effective information management through information technology. It also outlines the EIM framework, including strategy, process, technology, people, and governance components. The document further discusses the information industry, including its growth and importance as an economic sector that boosts innovation. It also examines the role of librarians in providing information services across different library settings.

1. Wel comes you
VBT Institute of Library
& Information Science
C.U.Shah University Wadhwan
2017-18

2. MLISc-Sem-I Unit:1
Electronics Information
Management

3. MLISc-Semester-I , Unit 1
• Subject: : Electronic Information
Management
Revised Syllabus : 2017-18
Prepare by : D.D.Dholakiya
: Visiting Faculty
(Dept.of Lib & Info.Sci,
in C.U. Shah University)

4. Electronic Information Management
• Over view
• Electronic Information Management (EIM) is one of the key
initiatives to be pursued under the 2008 Digital 21 Strategy. It
covers three domains, namely Content Management (CM),
Records Management (RM) and Knowledge Management
(KM). EIM aims to take a strategic approach to achieving
effective information management through wider use of
information technology (IT) and associated culture change so
that information can be created, stored, used, disseminated,
retrieved and archived in a well managed manner and be
readily available for day-to-day operational use, proper
recordkeeping, knowledge sharing and decision support.

5. EIM Framework
• Strategy - what to do and what NOT to do. It facilitates individual B/D to
define organizational level EIM strategy.
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• Process - how to deploy process to support the Strategy implementation in
the most cost-effective way and be integrated with Technology and People
capabilities.
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• Technology - how to build technology to support the Strategy
implementation in the most cost-effective way and be integrated with
Process and People capabilities.
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• People - how to get people ready for the changes in Process and Technology
to support the Strategy implementation. It facilitates individual B/D to
define organizational level change management programmed.
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• Governance - how to make the Strategy implementation sustainable with
continuous improvements. It facilitates individual B/D to define the
governance required.

6. Unit: I Information Industry
• First, information industries is a rapidly growing part of economy. The demand for
information goods and services from consumers is increasing. In case of consumers, media
including music and motion picture, personal computers, video game-related industries, are
among the information industries. In case of businesses, information industries include
computer programming, system design, so-called FIRE (finance, insurance, and real estate)
industries, telecommunications, and others. When demand for these industries are growing
nationally or internationally, that creates an opportunity for an urban, regional, or national
economy to grow rapidly by specializing on these sectors.
• Second, information industries are considered to boost innovation and productivity of other
industries. An economy with a strong information industry might be a more competitive one
than others, other factors being equal.
• Third, some believe that the effect of the changing economic structure (or composition of
industries within an economy) is related to the broader social change. As information
becomes the central part of our economic activities we evolve into an "information society",
with an increased role of mass media, digital technologies, and other mediated information
in our daily life, leisure activities, social life, work, politics, education, art, and many other
aspects of society.

7. About Information Age
• The Information Age (also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, or New
Media Age) is a period in human history characterized by the shift from traditional
industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an
economy based on information computerization. The onset of the Information Age
is associated with the Digital Revolution, just as the Industrial Revolution marked
the onset of the Industrial Age.
• During the information age, the phenomenon is that the digital industry creates a
knowledge-based society surrounded by a high-tech global economy that spans
over its influence on how the manufacturing throughput and the service sector
operate in an efficient and convenient way. In a commercialized society, the
information industry is able to allow individuals to explore their personalized
needs, therefore simplifying the procedure of making decisions for transactions
and significantly lowering costs for both the producers and buyers. This is accepted
overwhelmingly by participants throughout the entire economic activities for
efficacy purposes, and new economic incentives would then be indigenously
encouraged, such as the knowledge economy

8. Information Age
• The Information Age has affected the workforce in that
automation and computerization have resulted in higher
productivity coupled with net job loss. In the United States for
example, from January 1972 to August 2010, the number of
people employed in manufacturing jobs fell from 17,500,000
to 11,500,000 while manufacturing value rose 270%.
• Although it initially appeared that job loss in the industrial
sector might be partially offset by the rapid growth of jobs in
the IT sector, the recession of March 2001 foreshadowed a
sharp drop in the number of jobs in the IT sector. This pattern
of decrease in jobs continued until 2003.
• Data has shown that overall, technology creates more jobs
than it destroys even in the short run.

9. Development of Information Industry
• The information industry has gradually become a pillar of national
economic development in various countries, but there has been
disagreement about its definition and its categorical measure at home and
abroad. As a constantly changing complex system, the information
industry has its own law of development as well as internal characteristics.
The information industry features the intellectualization of high
technology and regards universality as the main goal. Another feature of
the information industry is that it penetrates into and integrates with
traditional industries by means of information technology and service,
which makes its development have a “multiplier” effect on the economy.

10. Development of Information Industry
• The information technology (IT) industry has become of the most robust
industries in the world. IT, more than any other industry or economic
facet, has an increased productivity, particularly in the developed world,
and therefore is a key driver of global economic growth. Economies of
scale and insatiable demand from both consumers and enterprises
characterize this rapidly growing sector.
• The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) explains
'information technology' as encompassing all possible aspects of
information systems based on computers.
• Both software development and the hardware involved in the IT industry
include everything from computer systems, to the design,
implementation, study and development of IT and management systems

11. Development of Information Industry
• The role of the IT Industry
• The IT industry can serve as a medium of e-governance, as it assures easy accessibility to
information. The use of information technology in the service sector improves operational
efficiency and adds to transparency. It also serves as a medium of skill formation.
• MAJOR STEPS TAKEN FOR PROMTION OF IT INDUSTRY
• Domain of the IT Industry
• A wide variety of services come under the domain of the information technology industry.
Some of these services are as follows:
• Systems architecture
• Database design and development
• Networking
• Application development
• Testing
• Documentation
• Maintenance and hosting
• Operational support
• Security services

12. • The information industry or information industries are industries that are information intensive in one way or the other. It
is considered one of the most important economic sectors for a variety of reasons.
• There are many different kinds of information industries, and many different ways to classify them. Although there is no
standard or distinctively better way of organizing those different views, the following section offers a review of what the
term "information industry" might entail, and why. Alternative conceptualizations are that of knowledge industry and
information-related occupation. The term "information industry" is mostly identified with computer programming, system
design, telecommunications, and others.
• First, there are companies which produce and sell information in the form of goods or services. Media products such as
television programs and movies, published books and periodicals would constitute probably among the most accepted part
of what information goods can be. Some information is provided not as a tangible commodity but as a service. Consulting is
among the least controversial of this kind. However, even for this category, disagreements can occur due to the vagueness of
the term "information." For some, information is knowledge about a subject, something one can use to improve the
performance of other activities—it does not include arts and entertainments. For others, information is something that is
mentally processed and consumed, either to improve other activities (such as production) or for personal enjoyment; it
would include artists and architects. For yet others, information may include anything that has to do with sensation.
• information industries may include even such things as restaurant, amusement parks, and prostitution to the extent that
food, park ride, and sexual intercourse have to do with senses. In spite of the definitional problems, industries producing
information goods and services are called information industries.
• Second, there are information processing services. Some services, such as legal services, banking, insurance, computer
programming, data processing, testing, and market research, require intensive and intellectual processing of information.
Although those services do not necessarily provide information, they often offer expertise in making decisions on behalf of
clients. These kinds of service industries can be regarded as an information-intensive part of various industries that is
externalized and specialized.
• Third, there are industries that are vital to the dissemination of the information goods mentioned above. For example,
telephone, broadcasting and book retail industries do not produce much information, but their core business is to
disseminate information others produced. These industries handle predominantly information and can be distinguished
from wholesale or retail industries in general. It is just a coincidence, one can argue, that some of those industries are
separately existing from the more obvious information-producing industries. For example, in the United States, as well as
some other countries, broadcasting stations produce very limited amount of programs they broadcast. But this is not the
only possible form of division of labor. If legal, economic, cultural, and historical circumstances were different, the
broadcasters would have been the producers of their own programs. Therefore, in order to capture the information related
activities of the economy, it might be a good idea to include this type of industry. These industries show how much of an
economy is about information, as opposed to materials. It is useful to differentiate production of valuable information from
processing that information in a sophisticated way, from the movement of information.

13. Genesis of Information Industry
• Second, there are information processing services. Some services, such as legal services, banking,
insurance, computer programming, data processing, testing, and market research, require intensive and
intellectual processing of information. Although those services do not necessarily provide information,
they often offer expertise in making decisions on behalf of clients. These kinds of service industries can be
regarded as an information-intensive part of various industries that is externalized and specialized.
• Third, there are industries that are vital to the dissemination of the information goods mentioned above.
For example, telephone, broadcasting and book retail industries do not produce much information, but
their core business is to disseminate information others produced. These industries handle predominantly
information and can be distinguished from wholesale or retail industries in general. It is just a coincidence,
one can argue, that some of those industries are separately existing from the more obvious information-
producing industries. For example, in the United States, as well as some other countries, broadcasting
stations produce very limited amount of programs they broadcast. But this is not the only possible form of
division of labor. If legal, economic, cultural, and historical circumstances were different, the broadcasters
would have been the producers of their own programs. Therefore, in order to capture the information
related activities of the economy, it might be a good idea to include this type of industry. These industries
show how much of an economy is about information, as opposed to materials. It is useful to differentiate
production of valuable information from processing that information in a sophisticated way, from the
movement of information.

14. Genesis of Information Industry
• Fourth, there are manufacturers of information-processing devices that require research
and sophisticated decision-making. These products are vital to information-processing
activities of above mentioned industries. The products include computers of various levels
and many other microelectronic devices, as well as software programs. Printing and copying
machines, measurement and recording devices of various kinds, electronic or otherwise, are
also in this category. The role of these tools are to automate certain information-processing
activities. The use of some of these tools may be very simple (as in the case of some
printing), and the processing done by the tools may be very simple (as in copying and some
calculations) rather than intellectual and sophisticated. In other words, the specialization of
these industries in an economy is neither production of information nor sophisticated
decision-making. Instead, this segment serves as an infrastructure for those activities, making
production of information and decision-making services will be a lot less efficient. In addition,
these industries tend to be "high-tech" or research intensive - trying to find more efficient
ways to boost efficiency of information production and sophisticated decision-making. For
example, the function of a standard calculator is quite simple and it is easy to how to use it.
However, manufacturing a well-functioning standard calculator takes a lot of processes, far
more than the task of calculation performed by the users.

15. Genesis of Information Industry
• Finally, there are industries that are not research intensive,
but serve as infrastructure for information production and
sophisticated decision-making. Manufacturing of office
furniture would be a good example, although it sometimes
involves research in ergonomics and development of new
materials.
• As stated above, this list of candidates for information
industries is not a definitive way of organizing differences that
researchers may pay attention to when they define the term.
Among the difficulties is, for example, the position of
advertising industry.

16. Characteristics and Importance of
Information Industry
• With the advent of the information era, IT and the
information industry are becoming the main stimuli of world
economy, driving the transformation from industrial society to
information society, while causing the institutional reform and
changing the realistic economic activities and social life. Just
as what Okinawa Charter on Global information Society points
out: information and communications technology is one of
the most potent forces in shaping the twenty-first century. Its
revolutionary impact affects the way people live, learn and
work and the way government interact with civil society. IT is
fast becoming a vital engine of growth for the world economy.

17. Role of Librarian in information Industry
• Overview
• Information is the tool by which we learn, make decisions, and answer questions
or concerns that we face every day at work, at school, and in our personal lives.
Professionals working in the library and information services industry help us
organize and store information, and then provide guidance when it is necessary to
retrieve and process the information.
• Libraries play a key role in the information services industry. Libraries and
information professionals help people sort through information and keep up with
technology that continues to rapidly advance. Information professionals may work
anywhere from traditional library settings to corporate offices to research
institutes and information brokerages.
• Elementary, middle, and high school library media specialists work with teachers in
planning and determining resources to be included in the teaching curriculum.
Academic libraries employ professionals who provide information services to
millions of students enrolled in institutions of higher education: junior colleges,
colleges, and universities. Librarians and support staff working in public libraries
provide a variety of services for people of all ages.