Special libraries and information services and the development of the UK information industry Available to Purchase

It would not be particularly useful to dwell overlong on defining the information industry. That term, as currently used, can be understood to cover some aspect of most activities in industrialised society. However, it seems to me to be more useful to narrow the focus to those factors that most concern the sort of people who attend Aslib conferences, and the type of special libraries and information units they work in.