Lomas, Elizabeth; (2025) Information Governance. In: Baker, David and Ellis, Lucy, (eds.) Encyclopedia of Libraries, Librarianship, and Information Science. (pp. 372-378). Elsevier: Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Abstract

In the 21st century, Information Governance has emerged as a multi-disciplinary enterprise that is needed to manage the increasingly complex networks of delivery that reside around information given the recognition of the significant value of information assets. At an organizational level, Information Governance provides a strategic framework for governing all information assets and managing the risks in terms of opportunities and threats that reside around those assets. Information assets include not just digital assets but are widely framed including people, data, information, records, software, hardware, physical assets, services, and intangibles, such as reputation and image. It requires Board level leadership across disciplines to successfully ensure the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and reliability of those assets can be delivered through time and that steps are taken to control and innovate appropriately. More advanced ethical structures seek to ensure human-centric frameworks with the potential for participation and/or collaboration in information creation and management. It has developed against a backdrop of state concerns over national and citizen safety together with drivers to remain technologically competitive. As such it needs to be understood in the context of global governance agendas and regulatory frameworks, in particular information rights laws. This entry seeks to discuss the complex development of Information Governance.

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