Current library automation research supported by the British Library Available to Purchase

There would be few in the library world who would dispute the fact that information technology is having an impact on management perspectives, service goals, organisational matters and library housekeeping systems. But there would also be few who would claim to have a firm grasp of the complex interaction between developments in technology and their effects on library and information services. The need therefore to sponsor research into both the technologies and the potential applications is of crucial importance as a means of confronting these problems.