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Volume 37, Issue 8
1 August 1985
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Review Article| August 01 1985

Data protection? But I'm a librarian

Peter Gillman
Peter Gillman
Aslib Research & Consultancy
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-3748
Print ISSN: 0001-253X
© MCB UP Limited
1985
Aslib Proceedings (1985) 37 (8): 311–313.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb050978

I am casting myself into the role of the professional practitioner of the black arts of information handling. Naturally I have heard of the Data Protection Act, and I have even read some of the papers on the subject. I run a reasonably successful information service, with a home‐made integrated system based on dBase II. This runs on a micro which also has a modem for online searches, and which in addition is used for word processing.

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