Information climate means the creation of opportunities which will determine access to and use of information (Van Tonder, 2010). The construct information climate emerged within the organizational sphere as a set of conditions that determine access to and use of information, including the establishment of an information infrastructure (Correia and Wilson, 2001).

Information sharing culture influences how the exchange of information happens between people and technologies within organization and between various organizations.

The information culture in a broad sense is a set of principles and the mechanisms providing interaction of ethnic and national cultures, their connection in the general experience of mankind; in the narrow sense of the word - optimum ways of the reference with the information and representation to its consumer for the decision of theoretical and practical problems; mechanisms of perfection of technical environments of manufacture, storage and an information transfer; development of system of training, preparation of the person for an effective utilisation of information means and the information (V.A.Kravets, V.N.Kuharenko, «Issues of Shaping the Information Culture», http://www.ifap.ru/eng/projects/infolit.htm).

Thomas Hapke sees close connection between information literacy and information culture. Please get familiar with Hapke's approach via the following presentation slides: http://www.slideshare.net/thapke/information-culture-different-views-on-information-literacy