Commercial information resources, of course, are only interested in information that provides revenue. This immediately eliminates the entire cultural heritage of poetry, play writing, and theological thought, among others. Now I know that libraries aren't perfect institutions. And in the process of developing and managing that resource, the library profession has understood its responsibilities in both a social and historical context. Drawing on that experience, I am going to give you a short lesson on social responsibilities in an information society.
Information collection is an activity, and an intelligent activity.
It is important to collect and collocate information units that support, complement and even contradict each other. It is not random, because information itself is not random, and humans do not produce information in a random fashion. Too many Internet sites today are a terrible hodge-podge, with little intellectual purpose behind their holdings. It isn't surprising that visitors to these sites have a hard time seeing the value of the information contained therein. So in the whole elaborate scheme, no one is responsible for the collection of information.