Information for all: access and availability Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Institute of Information Scientists   Edited by Brenda White     ISBN 0 947568 16 6 1987 £18.00/US$34.00     Order this book   Recommend to library   Back   Home

CONTENTS   Information availability and access: issues and approaches Maurice B. Line   The national information policy framework Royston Brown     CO-OPERATION IN MAKING INFORMATION AVAILABLE   Local co-operation and networks Diana Edmonds   Co-operation between information services in the pharmaceutical industry Alan Blick   Data stores - centralised access or local availability Allan Foster     PUBLIC SECTOR/PRIVATE SECTOR INTERACTION   Government's role as information provider Brian Willott   Commercial responsibility Geoffrey Thompson   Contracting out - the RMCS experience J. Stephen Town   Roles and responsibilities of the public and private sectors Kenneth Cooper     STUDENT SESSION   Impact of online sources of market information on the company library or information department Catharine Tickner   Production and characteristics of grey literatur in the field of new and renewable sources of energy Caroline Rawlinson   An investigation into the concept of user-friendliness in computer systems Lesley Trenner     LIBRARY AND INFORMATION STUDIES EDUCATION   A future for education in librarianship and information science Brian Morris     PUBLISHING - AUTHOR/USER COMMUNICATION   Authorship and editing John Maddox   Communication in the scientific community Jack Meadows   The role of the publisher David Summers   Electronic publishing: its status and acceptance David Raitt     NEW TECHNOLOGY FOCUS   Common command language - common or uncommon? Barry Mahon   Basic concepts of expert systems J.L. Alty   Automation in the office Graham Willis   Managing new technology creatively David Boddy     THE ROLE OF INFORMATION   The role of information in industrial research John Norris   IIS PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS   The ownership of information Sir Robert Clayton