NEED FOR INFORMATION
Everybody needs information for some purpose or the other. When you want to travel, you need information about routes, timings of the transport services, hotel facilities, and the like. You may gather this information from a friend or from a travel agency. You may also go to a library and collect this information from some formal reference sources like tourist guides and railway time-tables. The discussion in this section would be limited to information which is recorded in various types of documents. People seek information -for various reasons, Consider the following typical examples of information needs of a wide cross-section of people: