They plan, fundraise, develop, budget, coordinate, hire, supervise, evaluate, reward and fire, communicate, promote, and represent, largely using skills borrowed from the business community. Information workers and their clients work with reliable classification theory every day. Ample empirical research evidence describes and predicts both the behavior of information and the behavior of people toward information. We discover relationships, derive principles, and apply method. Some of us are concerned mostly with machine applications.
Community has some geographical properties, but it is defined conceptually.
The community consists of all those persons who have rightful access to the materials and services of a given information place. Sometimes an entire community of Library A may gain rightful access to Library B when A and B join forces. The function of the information place or library is to create, acquire, store, and provide information materials and services for its community. The provision function includes ownership and access roles. Each information agency defines its mission in accordance with community need.