What do you understand by deinstitutionalised information services? Discuss their types and functions.

 The Weinberg Report extensively discussed the role of Information Analysis Centres (IACs) and their importance and emphasised that “the activities of most successful (information analysis) centres are intrinsic part of science and technology. The centres not only disseminate and retrieve information; they create new information. The process of shifting through large masses of data often leads to new generalisations.

In short, knowledgeable scientific interpreters who can collect relevant data, review a field, and distil information in a manner that goes to the heart of a technical situation, are more help to the over burdened specialist than is a mere pile of relevant documents. Such knowledgeable scientific middlemen, who themselves contribute to science are backbone of the information (analysis) centre; they make Information Centre a technical institute rather than a technical library.

Information Institutions have been established over a period of time for meeting the information needs of society, as a whole. It has also been stated that the library, as the traditional storehouse of knowledge and preserver of cultural heritage, is caught in the maelstrom of change, generated by technological advances. While accepting that change will come, it is necessary for us to preserve the essence of institutionalised service by enhancing the key aspects of the overall service. However, the information service is no longer exclusively defined in terms of activities carried out in a traditional library and Information Centre. For example, during the last two decades the phenomenon of information broker has developed a pace, especially in the USA and other advanced countries. In USA itself there are a number of brokerage firms in operation, the important ones being Information Store and Information Unlimited.

There are different categories of Information Institutions. The most popular ones are: Libraries, Documentation Centres, Information Analysis Centres, and Data Centres, etc. Apart from these traditional institutions Referral Centres and Clearing Houses, and many deinstitutionalised information services came up lately. Libraries – public, academic, governmental and special, provide the only means of access in our society to any book, journal, or document that is out of print or more than a few years old. Most foreign  books and journals and specialised documents which are not obtainable at all through regular book trade channels are acquired and preserved by libraries. Documentation Centres are basically for specialist users in the field. These are organised at local, regional and national levels in the country. Information Analysis Centres not only disseminate and retrieve information, they create new information. Data Centres collect, control, codify, organise and retrieve the data for the users.

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