Journal of Educational Media and Library Sciences


Vol. 34 No. 4 , Pages 396 - 404 , 1997

A Turning Point on the Fee-Based Information Services (Article written in chinese)

Zeping CAI

Abstract

The rapid development of Internet will improve the technical environment of information service, while developing economy will constitute its humanistic aspect. Information fee service will be faced with historical selection in the new information environment. First of all, the article summarizes the situation of information fee service, and analyse the challenge that reference librarians will be faced with. Secondly, the author compares the reference librarians and information broker from different angle, and puts forward some strategies that reference librarians meet this challenge. At last, the author makes prospects and analysis about the development pattern of information fee service.

Keywords: Information broker; Reference librarian; Information pollution; Information sensitivity

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