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The 1984 Information Technology and Electronic Publishing Exhibition took place from 4–6 December, side by side with the 8th International Online Information Meeting at Novotel (formerly the Cunard Hotel) in London. Both events have been organised on an annual basis since 1977 by Learned Information (Europe) Ltd. The Exhibition, with over 2,000 attendees every year, has become an annual opportunity for online users, researchers, educators and suppliers to keep up to date with news of developments in the online industry as markets and products develop rapidly with advancing technology.

This article discusses two main themes: why choose a package approach for distribution software? and — how do you select the right one for your company? The purpose of this paper is to provide an objective way of guiding companies through the jungle of the distribution software market. It is an abridged version of a paper presented to the Warehouse & Distribution Software Conference put on by the National Materials Handling Centre, in London in February.

Here's a note for your new 1991 diary! Following the success of the Library Resources Exhibition in Nottingham last June the organisers announce next year's Exhibition for 11–13 June 1991 at the Rex Centre, Birmingham which is a newly‐opened, purpose‐designed exhibition and conference centre on the Coventry Road just one mile from New Street Station. For further information contact Joy Bussell at Library Resources Exhibition, 2 Forge House, Summerleys Road, Princes Risborough, Bucks HP17 9DT (0844–2894).

It continues to worry me that library and information services so often send news sheets and handouts lacking vital information. This month I have a publication for review from the Institute of Information Scientists with all details except price and I had to ring Plymouth to get this. Then there was the Suffolk County Council's Information and Library Service which, in its SCILS News, March 1989 on page 7 described the Museum of East Anglian Life and included a picture of its new shop and Contemporary Crafts Gallery. The Museum sounds interesting and attractive as does the included programme of lectures and special events throughout 1989 — just the place to visit, in fact, but where is it? And copy on courses and conferences without indication of start‐time and cost fail to tell potential participants at least one of the things which may help them to decide whether or not to be actual participants.

Strategy consultants have much to offer a top executive in terms of improving the bottom line. Yet little is known about the strategy consulting industry, because the firms and their clients are often reluctant to disclose details of their activities. This article surveys the leading strategy consulting firms and explores trends affecting the future of the industry.

Data are presented on staff dishonesty in the electrical retail sector deriving from a 1991 survey of 55 Dixons stores in the Dixons Stores Group. Two hundred and seventy seven staff were interviewed about their colleagues' involvement in crime. The survey addressed seven interrelated questions: how many staff steal?, which staff steal?, what do staff steal?, why do staff steal?, where do staff steal from?, do staff get caught? and what stops staff theft? The data add an empirical dimension to an important, but neglected and inaccessible area.

The film approach to history in this paper I want to consider the film as source material for history in the sense that palimpsest and parchment, hieroglyph and rune, clay tablet and manorial roll are source materials—fragments, sometimes fragments of fragments, often defaced by time, and applied to purposes of historical reconstruction rarely contemplated by the original authors. For the most part I shall not be particularly concerned with the various philosophies of history—whether it is the job of the historian to lay material dispassionately before the student so that he can make up his own mind about what happened in the past, or to digest source material in order to arrive at the truth—that is, what the historian may hope is the whole incontrovertible real truth, or to digest source material, as Macaulay and Carlyle digested it, in order to justify something in contemporary life or thought. All that need be said here for the moment is that films can be used, as other historical source material can be used, for various and different historical purposes.

In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of material poses problems for the researcher in management studies — and, of course, for the librarian: uncovering what has been written in any one area is not an easy task. This volume aims to help the librarian and the researcher overcome some of the immediate problems of identification of material. It is an annotated bibliography of management, drawing on the wide variety of literature produced by MCB University Press. Over the last four years, MCB University Press has produced an extensive range of books and serial publications covering most of the established and many of the developing areas of management. This volume, in conjunction with Volume I, provides a guide to all the material published so far.