Library and Information Science Abstracts have successfully completed a pilot project, with SilverPlatter Information Limited, that has resulted in a one‐year file of Lisa for…
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Library and Information Science Abstracts have successfully completed a pilot project, with SilverPlatter Information Limited, that has resulted in a one‐year file of Lisa for 1984 being recorded onto CD‐ROM (Compact Disk — Read Only Memory). Plans are now well under way for providing the complete Lisa database on CD‐ROM commercially by mid‐1986.
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This paper was written in response to an invitation to give a talk on how to make information services cost‐effective. Its basic message is ‘use the systems approach’, but my aim…
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This paper was written in response to an invitation to give a talk on how to make information services cost‐effective. Its basic message is ‘use the systems approach’, but my aim will be to express this in practical rather than abstract terms. It will be based to a large extent on experience gained over the past eight years, from the work of the Aslib Consultancy Service. This service is based on the Aslib R & D Department, and was originally conceived as a means by which some of the results of research could be applied in real life situations. To some extent this intention has been fulfilled: consultancy work does provide opportunities to apply the results of research—but only in a supportive way. The most important asset of our team is the experience we have painfully gained over the years of striking an acceptable balance between idealism and practicality. In particular, we have learned a lot about making systems work within the limitations of the people who operate and use them.
The author writes from experience, originally as a member of the Aslib Consultancy Service and subsequently as an independent consultant. She explores the expectations of the…
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The author writes from experience, originally as a member of the Aslib Consultancy Service and subsequently as an independent consultant. She explores the expectations of the client and the consultant, qualities desirable in consultants and job satisfactions, and goes on to analyse in detail the consulting process, the pathology of information systems and the role of library consultants as change agents.
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The expression ‘information management’ has been around for some time, but at last it seems to be catching on in a big way. It features increasingly in the titles of papers in the…
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The expression ‘information management’ has been around for some time, but at last it seems to be catching on in a big way. It features increasingly in the titles of papers in the literature of information science and librarianship (see for example the programme for the 1984 Aslib Conference), and that of management. New journals and new textbooks on information management are proliferating. Courses in information management are being offered at certain universities and at least one business school. Last year, Aslib changed its name to become the Association for Information Management. It would appear that IM has well and truly arrived.
1984 has turned out to be a very interesting and instructive year. I was given a special assignment, the essence of which was that I should do things to consolidate and extend…
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1984 has turned out to be a very interesting and instructive year. I was given a special assignment, the essence of which was that I should do things to consolidate and extend Aslib's capability in the field of information management, following its change of name.
We have met to celebrate — and rightly so — the completion of twenty‐one years of the publication of a great journal: twenty‐one years of hard work for more than one of us here…
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We have met to celebrate — and rightly so — the completion of twenty‐one years of the publication of a great journal: twenty‐one years of hard work for more than one of us here tonight — the first Program author will speak to us shortly. Program represents a significant and abiding contribution to the literature of librarianship and occupies, according to my measurement, two feet of library shelf space.
To provide a broad overview of the history of the journal Program: electronic library and information systems and its contents over its first 40 years.
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To provide a broad overview of the history of the journal Program: electronic library and information systems and its contents over its first 40 years.
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Analysis of content from the original published material, as well as from abstracting and indexing publications and from minutes of Editorial Board meetings.
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The publication has grown from modest beginnings as a newsletter for UK university librarians to a respected refereed journal with a wide international readership.
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An analysis of the content of articles published on computer systems in libraries and information units over the last 40 years.