Given the difficulty that appears to surround the concept of information, it would not be surprising if there were to be some difficulty in reaching agreement as to the nature of discipline that is described as” information management”由于“信息”的概念本身就已经充满争议,所以很难给“信息管理”下一个广泛接受的定义就不足为奇了。Nevertheless, although the various disciplinary perspective do not yield a unified view of the nature of information, they are all consistent in one 然而,尽管不同的学术观点对于信息的本质有不同的理解,在一个方面是共通的。No professional or disciplinary perspective appears to be able to avoid the consideration of the processing of information, when seeking to define 那就是任何专业或者学术观点在定义“信息”的问题上都不能回避信息处理这一话题。The next step must be to examine information processing, and the associated concept information management, in more 下一步,就必须详细审视信息处理和一个相关的概念:信息管理。