日常的情報概念の展開構造

一図書館構造分析序説一（II）

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　The word “information” is sometimes treated in every-day life as if it were an object or a thing. It seems to me, however, the information viewed from the framework of being conscious is an informed pattern reflected and impressed on the personality.
　I first assume that a man's action, or his concrete labour, transforms the subjective pattern in his consciousness into an objective pattern with a distinctive character. Secondly, at the same time, an object matter attached itself to the objectified pattern can be shaped by a socially necessary means of the expression of an intersubjective idea, that is, a composition (i.e. subjective pattern based upon the pattern originally informed on his mind. In other words, it is an expenditure of human labour-power in the abstract. Such a process may now be called objectification.
　The objectified pattern above mentioned may be (a) perceived by an observer as a sign, that is, an “in-formed” pattern so called “information” which means something particular to him. The information as subjectified or a perceptual image focussed on his personality may be (b) referred to his frame of reference, understood as a meaning focussed on his subjective knowledge, and then (c) stored systematically as an intersubjective matter. It can perhaps be admitted to consider this process as subjectification.
　Information processes, therefore, involved in the context of transformations of the phenomenal world must be analysed in terms of consciousness of human behavior into its twofold form—creative or productive process, and evaluative or constructive process.
　The creative mechanism of information direct the system technologically to make it active as an organization and objectifies subjectified patterns. The constructive mechanism, on the contrary, controls the system theoretically and subjectifies objectifies patterns.
　To turn our eyes now to the field of library phenomena, such a reciprocal process of human communication between objectification and subjectification as found in the framework of every-day language can serve as an indication of the analysis of the fundamental concept of information in and around the systemic-functional apparatus. To say the point more plainly, I argue that the library apparatus operates on two sorts of mechanism of information—the one is constructive or analytic, the other is creative or synthetic. In other words, the constructive one systematizes thought content of books for preservation, that is, materialization—the mechanism of information in subject cataloging. The creative one organizes and transforms functionally the system for preservation to utilization, that is, formalization—the mechanism of information in descriptive cataloging in a broad sense.
　The library, of course, should be an effective mechanism for facilitating the interaction between systematized thought content and the individual interest. Furthermore, it must be emphasized from the standpoint of one's free association of ideas that this is not only a socially necessary means for idealization of thought content by information work as practiced by information intermediaries but for its realization by individuals.