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Managing the acquisition of journal articles against specific requests is part of the traditional portfolio of the industrial information service. In industry, holdings policies have always assumed that only journals with a high incidence of relevant articles should be held in‐house. Within the UK, the British Library’s Document Supply Centre is the dominant supplier and many organizations have developed electronic processing systems for streamlining request management. Industry is now being faced with an increasing choice of document suppliers ready to fax articles worldwide. At the same time the launch of products such as Chemical Abstracts’ SciFinder service offers the possibility of browsing from title through abstract to a full document at the desktop. The industrial information service in the late 1990s is now faced with the challenge of fundamentally re‐appraising the needs for document provision in a situation where, apparently, everything will be possible ‐ but not just yet.

Standards exist for many aspects of scientific and technical information and its management. This paper examines standardization from the perspective of an ‘ideal information scenario’. It focuses both on the older well‐established standards and those standards currently under development which are most important for information management. It concludes with a proposed approach for planning standards activity.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the salary and promotion negotiation practices of female and male school psychology practitioners and university instructors of school psychology practitioners in order to determine whether salary differences exist between male and female employees in the field of school psychology, which has become a female‐dominated profession.

A total of 191 female and 115 male faculty members and 148 female and 56 male school psychologists completed a survey regarding salary, negotiation practices, and job satisfaction.

Results suggest that females earn less than male colleagues, controlling for years of experience and degree attainment. No gender differences were found regarding faculty participants' willingness to negotiate for increased salary; however, males were more likely to negotiate for promotion. Likewise, no gender differences were evident in practitioners' salary and promotion negotiation attempts, although none were expected, given the salary schedule constraints unique to occupations in the field of education.

The paper is limited to one profession, albeit both university faculty and school psychology practitioners, and was conducted in the USA, so the findings may have limited generalizability to other professions and/or in other countries.

The paper demonstrates that gender pay differences exist despite no differences in males' and females' willingness to negotiate for salary. Consequently, it is likely that pay differences between men and women are due to reasons other than individuals' education levels, years in position, and negotiation practices.

This is the first paper that tracks salaries and the negotiating practices of school psychologist trainers and practitioners. It also finds that male/female salary differences carry over into a female‐dominated profession.

In the Spring 1989 semester, the Interdisciplinary Studies Department of Salem State College first offered New Technologies for Information Retrieval. This three‐credit course provides an introduction to automated searching tools available to students directly at home or indirectly through libraries and colleges. Database searching, CD‐ROM, interactive videodisks, bulletin boards, electronic mail, and online catalogs are among the technologies discussed. This article will elaborate on the rationale, goals, development, execution, and outcomes of the course, and relate them to current discussions on the importance of expanding “information literacy” for students.

Over the past twenty years, bibliographic instruction has evolved from teaching students the mechanics of locating research materials to a process‐oriented approach that emphasizes analyzing research needs, framing a research question, and evaluating the search results. In the last decade alone, academic librarians have extended bibliographic instruction to cover online catalogs, CD‐ROMs, and database searching, in addition to teaching print resources and the card catalog. We are still defining a paradigm for teaching end‐users. Some of the assumptions associated with the teaching of print resources, for example, can be applied to the teaching of information technologies, while others cannot. Our efforts are further complicated by the rapid development of new types of technologies, by vendor refusals to adopt a standard command language or user interface, and by our patrons' varying responses to both computers in general and electronic research sources in particular.

‘Communication and organisational abilities of a high order’, ‘marketing and training skills’, ‘management experience’, ‘innovator’, ‘enthusiastic and lively personality’ — these are just some of the requirements listed in recent advertisements for posts in industrial and commercial libraries. So what of the dreaded ‘library image’ — the well‐known stereotype playing a passive, sometimes remote, role? — This is hardly described by the above turns of phrase.

To report the highlights of the 2005 Online Information Conference.

Provides a brief review of the conference.

The conference offered a wide variety of timely presentations on online content and information management solutions

This paper is a useful summary of a conference of interest to library and information management professionals.

Test evaluates feasibility of CD‐ROM as document supply medium. The hypothesis goes like this. If document supply centres could cut the cost of filling requests for journal articles, and continue to charge the same price for their service, publishers of the journals could share in the resultant increase in profits. One way to cut costs, the hypothesis continues, may be to replace the labour‐intensive photocopying procedures currently practised at the supply centres with document delivery on CD‐ROM. The new technology could also enhance publisher/library relationships by improving the scope of service to library users.

When the Institute of Information Scientists was founded in 1958 the Internet was still germinating in the Cold War bunkers of the ARPANET, the seventeen‐year old Pele was performing his magic in the World Cup in Sweden, and librarians were still recording bits of information on 5 by 3 index cards. The 40th Anniversary Conference of the Institute which took place at the University of Sheffield from 8–11 July 1998 took place with the Net ubiquitous (well, at least in the English‐speaking countries), with Ronaldo leading the line for Brazil, and with Information Scientists confronting opportunities to remake themselves as the cutting‐edge ‘knowledge managers’ of the corporate world.

British government approves data network After months of preparation by HM Treasury's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA), the first phase of the Government Data Network (GDN) has now been accepted. Trials of GDN took place in January, and it has now been implemented for daily use in 178 Customs and Excise locations throughout Britain. GDN is operated by Racal Data Networks.