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    An information community is a partnership of institutions and individuals forming and cultivating a community of interest around the provision and exchange of information, or knowledge, aimed at increasing access to that information or increasing communication, and thereby increasing that knowledge.

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    "An information community is a constituency united by a common interest in a set of dynamic, linked, and varying resources." (LAMA)
     

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