As the information quantity exceeds the capacity of rational information dissemination and management, it will be important to find the mechanisms in parsing, focusing and tailoring the information according to the needs of the recipient. Therefore, the need for methods, tools and criteria to measure information quality is evident. The pricing of electronic information favours large units and is not, according to the publishers, going to be less expensive than printed material. In some fields, such as physics and chemistry, the essential basic information sources are the same for all institutes active in education and research in those certain fields. A good example of existing resource sharing in the Finnish research libraries is the integrated library system, VTLS, adopted in all 20 Finnish university libraries at the beginning of the 1990's.
Technical information falls into the business category.
The amount of information was regarded sufficient in general but the finding of information when needed was considered a problem. Especially the government authorities were criticized for their deficient information delivery. The taxation information was, curiously enough, regarded as being promptly available. There are also problems in the use of database-type information sources within the SMEs. Language barriers do exist which prohibit the understanding of the information contents without an intermediary.