Aslib Proceedings: Volume 43 Issue 11/12

Provision and use of information in SSDs — the impact on practice

Dugald Millar

A current advertisement on the radio says that in the last recession some companies decided they couldn't afford to advertise. They went bankrupt. The ones who are around today…

Information management in social services: a view from the foothills

David Streatfield

When I first became interested in the way social workers use information in the early 1970s, first as an information service provider and then as a researcher:

Practical information management for social services

Elisabeth Davenport

The current pattern of reporting in social services represents an attempt at rationalisation, a move away from multiple agencies handling different functional areas (the elderly…

Libraries and published information

Seonaid Elliott

I think it would be true to say that it can be difficult to see how the traditional library techniques of information gathering and retrieval fit into the high tech and frenetic…

Types of information in social services departments: client records and organizational records

Margaret Whittick

I approached the writing of this paper by trying to reach some tentative conclusions about some of the differences between administrative records and other forms of information…

Superlativising information technology

Dear Editor, Although about nine months have elapsed since Peter Brophy's 1990 article about workstations was published, re‐reading it has prompted this comment.