Library science and the information society: Aspects to consider with regard to reading practices

Some of the characteristics of the so called "information society", in which technology constitutes its material base, information its resource, and education the means through which social change and well being are achieved, are related to the field of Library Science, especially with regard to reading practices and information in which transforms are posited, as well as with the emergence of new behavioral modalities that are the result of documents and digital services that begin to impose rules others than those established by print media. These signifiers and symbols, as a result the varying degrees of access and ability of users, are emerging in the social fabric and serve both to open and, conversely, access ways close -when reading capacity is limited- to the growing supply of information available.