The article deals with research problems, tendencies and directions of development of the market of information services in the context of a specific region, Stavropol territory. Expanded categorical apparatus of the sphere of services based on the impact of information services on the development of all kinds of activity in sphere of services. Designed on the basis of the situational approach, the mechanism of control of the market of information services, contributing to the transformation of external and internal to the subject of management of information and knowledge in information goods within the borders of its current or future needs, tactical, or strategic interests.

Keywords: The scope of services, information services, information market, development, factors, prospects, tendencies, regularities.