Within the South African tertiary education context, information management is taught from a variety of perspectives, including computer science, business management, informatics, and library and information science. Each discipline has a particular multidisciplinary focus dealing with its fundamentals. To investigate information management education at the tertiary level, qualitative research consisting of semi-structured in-depth interviews was conducted in 1995 among the total population of academics teaching information management at South African universities. Based on this research, the existence of each multidisciplinary perspective can be argued. However, viewing the study domain from a wider interdisciplinary perspective, it can be argued that the core focus is information, secondly the management of information, and thirdly the application of technology (as a tool) for its enhancement. For this reason, the coexistence of multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary approaches to information management education is proposed (based on local and international trends), within a broader school of library and information science/studies. It is concluded that the horizontal integration of information management education into information skills curricula at the primary and secondary levels and an inter- and/or transdisciplinary approach at the tertiary level is the most appropriate means of providing the essential life coping skills that modern individuals require to function effectively in society. (Contains 16 references.) (MES)