Small is not necessarily beautiful…or is it?

When the Fédération Internationale de Documentation (FID) was invited to organise a session at the Second International Conference on the Application of Microcomputers in Information, Documentation and Libraries, held in Baden‐Baden in March 1986, it was felt that it could be useful to depart from the normal formal paper presentations and panels sessions. As the proposed session was in fact the last technical session scheduled in a five‐day Conference which had considered microcomputers from many different aspects, a change in style might be appreciated by the delegates.