Aslib Proceedings: Volume 36 Issue 11

Information for decision‐making

Alfred Morris

I have been asked to describe how I make decisions and what kind of information I need to make those decisions. So that you understand the context in which I make decisions I need…

Information for management in higher education

John H. Farrant

Universities are in the information business: to create, interpret, store and transmit knowledge comprises the greater part of their function. (I use the word ‘universities’ as…

The senior manager's information needs

David Streatfield

Over the past few years I have been involved with various research teams looking at organisational communication and at the impact that libraries and other information services…

FEROS

John Power

I work for the Inner London Education Authority in a post which deals with co‐ordinating computing developments across the twenty‐eight maintained and aided colleges in the…

Sources of data: demographic/educational/social

Barbara Roweth

I was asked to talk about demographic, social and educational data sources for the management of further and higher education from the perspective of the individual institution…