Part of an information system that provides collected data, knowledge, and information to users seeking said information. The collected information is managed and stored by an information professional, such as a librarian or archivist. 

Information Services in Libraries

Any services that provide information, knowledge, or data.

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When someone is informed, what they know is changed. 

In this way, "information" is the act of informing, communicating knowledge, to someone, or the act of receiving knowledge. 

Information as a Process

The Info Service Ontology. (June 23, 2010). What is an Information Service? https://infoserviceonto.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/what-is-an-information-service/

What is an Information Service?

Information behavior describes the way humans interact with information. There is an emphasis on how people seek, retrieve and utilize information.

Information Behavior

Information literacy refers to an individual's ability to identify an information need, then find, access, recover, evaluate, organize, and use the information 
To be information literate, one needs to have critical thinking, comprehension, and abstraction skills. 

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