CRISIS OF THE VALUE OF KNOWLEDGE? (Kryzys wartosci wiedzy?)

The author's reflections on the value of information. The context is limited to the issues relevant and important for the librarians in Poland in the first decade of the 21st century. The article concerns (among others): expected attributes and features of information, information imperative, values in human and social life, knowledge as a value, mutual relations of information and knowledge, devaluation of knowledge, and misusage of the ‘knowledge' term. Answering the title question the author states, referring to sociological and axiological contexts, that we are witnessing the crisis of the value of knowledge nowadays