Article is a digest of the most important parts of the thesis with the same title that was successfully defended at the Institute of Information Studies & Librarianship of the Faculty of Philosophy & Arts at the Charles University in Prague. It analyses current state of information services for iron and steel industry in Czech Republic. Furthermore, the current standing of the Czech metallurgical industry with its specific aspects is analysed. Contemporary trends of information support and knowledge management in business companies are discussed in the next part. Finally, some preselected information e-sources related to metallurgical industry are outlined.

Article is a digest of the most important parts of the thesis with the same title that was successfully defended at the Institute of Information Studies & Librarianship of the Faculty of Philosophy & Arts at the Charles University in Prague. It analyses current state of information services for iron and steel industry in Czech Republic. It also gives a short overview of historical development of these services during the past twenty years with special attention given to changes after 1989. The article particularly describes the activities of the Steel Federation, Inc. and interest association Informetal, including description of metallurgical bibliographic database METAL, as well as activities of technical library of the steelworks Třinecké železárny, a.s, and information centre of the company ArcelorMittal Ostrava, a.s.