New horizons for the information profession Meeting the challenge of change   Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Institute of Information Scientists   Edited by Hilary Dyer and Gwyneth Tseng   ISBN 0 947568 32 8 1988 £18.00/US$34.00     Order this book   Recommend to library   Back   Home

CONTENTS     New horizons for the information profession: strategic intelligence and competitive advantage Blaise Cronin   Company-wide information policies Maria Hughes   Corporate information trends in an industrial/business context Peter Taylor     FUTURE IMPLICATIONS OF CORPORATE INFORMATION SYSTEMS   Information flows in the NHS Simon Stone   Corporate information in the public sector Jean Plaister   Corporate information in the pharmaceutical industry Elspeth Scott     APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY   Data capture Oggie Jones   Storage: Digital Optical Discs - a review of developments Robert Barrett   Retrieval Mike Hyman   Transmission networks Adrian Stokes   Interfaces and on-line reading Michael Forrester     STUDENT SESSION   Automation of a special library: an assessment of information retrieval packages Claire Barraclough   The growth and value of conference literature Bob Oseman   Information brokers: a place in the future information market Daphne Rodwell   Computerisation of a cataloguing and retrieval system: a final year project Deborah Walker     IMPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY   Archival problems of electronic publications Paul Sturges   Achieving corporate goals with online information: the role of the information professional Frank Ryan   Human factors of changing information science technology Peter Robertson   IIS PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS   Science and myth information Lewis Wolpert     SOCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY   Electronic information: the withering of public access Trevor Haywood   Employment trends: what are employers looking for? Susan Hill   The impact of information technology on the wider society Shirley Williams