INFORMATION STAFF

I amhere to speak on behalf of the Institute of Information Scientists. Mr Mason has described an information department as an office with several sub‐professionals and a submerged four‐fifths of clerical staff. I do not recognize the description; perhaps it is a special library—I wouldn't know! Nor will I be drawn by Mr Callender's suggestion that there is one all‐embracing librarianship profession, except to observe if there is it includes people whose tasks differ so greatly that no one training could encompass them all.