On the Relationship between Library and Information Professionalism and Social Informatics

Abstract

Social informatics is intrinsic to any profession and to any professional education that deals with information and information technologies. Thus, there is a direct relationship between the professional activities of librarianship and the activities of social informatics. That relationship involves rethinking libraries, library services, and information management agency in terms of what libraries and similar institutions have been, what they are said to be, and what they may be in the future.