Inicio Information resource. As defined for the purposes of the National Referral Center: any organization, facility or individual willing and able to give authoritative responses to scientific or technical inquiries out of an existing store of knowledge or expertise. Montague, Leonard. 1971. The librarians’ glossary of terms used in librarianship and the book crafts and reference book. Great Britain: The trinity press. Pág. 329 Source. Information originates from people or organizations which will be designated as sources. Information is deemed to be original but not necessarily exclusive to sources, since the exclusivity of information can be destroyed by documentation. Sources are therefore a necessary condition for the existence of information, but the retrieval of information does not necessarily depend on a recipient’s knowledge of or permission by the source if the information is documented. Holler, Frederick. 1977. Toward a reference theory. En Rowland, Arthur...