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The development of a European information society
Peter HoareThe development of a society reliant on information is traced from the scientific revolutions of the mid‐seventeenth century. Throughout Europe (and later the world) this led to…
Promotion and marketing communications in the information marketplace
Jennifer RowleyPromotion is used to communicate with customers with respect to product offerings. This article explores the role of promotion in the information marketplace. Promotion has a key…
Independence in Kenya and the lost opportunity to build a people orientated library service
Shiraz DurraniThe article examines a report by an expatriate librarian on the library scene in East Africa in the 1950s and 1960s. According to the author, the report misses the climate of…
Publishers in Victorian England
Eric GlasgowThe enormous growth in publishing in Victorian England is surveyed from its origins in the eighteenth century to the demise, or survival, of principal publishing houses in the…