Aslib Proceedings: Volume 36 Issue 3

Information in the manufacturing industry: an assessment and proposals for improvement

George Rzevski, D.J. Farrar

This paper supports the assertion that relevant and correct information, delivered when and where required and in a suitable format, is the major asset of the manufacturing…

Commercial information: packaging for innovative services and accelerated recovery

Tom Cannon

This paper adopts a relatively broadbrush approach to an examination of the current state of commercial information and related services. An attempt will be made to integrate the…

Information and action in professional decision‐making

Dai Hounsell

In this paper I shall try to explore problems in translating information into practical action. My examples are drawn from education, but my wider concern is with the take‐up of…

Information in national planning—a developing role

Norman Higham

It is appropriate in this setting to remember the story of the Scottish Minister chastising his flock for their multitudinous sins, and threatening them with hell‐fire and…

Updating managers—assessing the case for a radical approach to retraining

Rowena Mills

As you will appreciate, I am speaking to you as an industrialist, that is, as a user of information.

Progress in Information Sociotechnology: the ten‐year syndrome

A.E. Cawkell

At the 1978 Aslib conference, I gave a talk entitled ‘The New Technology’, subsequently summarised in a short article in this journal. In it a drawing of something I called the…