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Libri, 2003, vol. 53, pp. 23–38 Copyright  Saur 2003 Printed in Germany · All rights reserved ______________________________________________ Libri ISSN 0024-2667 The Information Audit: Principles and Guidelines HANNERÍ BOTHA AND J.A. BOON Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Auditing is a recognised management technique providing audit, the communication audit. The researchers conclude managers with an overview of the present situation regard- that none of these are the same as the information audit, al- ing specific resource(s) and services within an organisation. though similarities exist. Various information audit metho- Many different types of audits currently exist in the com- dologies are discussed, evaluated and classified. The re- mercial world, including audits of information resources. searchers conclude that even though the principles of the fi- Currently, as far as the researchers could determine, there nancial audit cannot be used to develop a standardised exists no single accepted methodology for performing an in- methodology for information auditing, information profes- formation audit. In view of this, the researchers investigate sionals can look to