...Jill Feldt HERTIS Information for Industry (IFI) is a service designed to meet the varied information needs of businesses in the Hatfield area. For companies without their own library, it provides access to a team of information specialists and a vital backup service for company librarians...

...Angela Abell The role of the library in any field is changing and developing. The impetus for change must come from the librarian rather than the employer, whose view of change may be rather narrow. Increasingly the industrial library's role will be close involvement in the organisation's business...

...David King The British Library currently consists of two major operational divisions. The principal part of the library serving industry and commerce is the Science and Technology Division. The range of services comprising this division, e.g. the Business Information Service and the Science...

...J.R. Norris The role of libraries and librarians in industry is changing rapidly. This is the Information Age in which information transfer is all‐important. The implications for librarians are that there will be a gradual understanding by others of the importance of the librarian's role. The way...

... significant is the dynamism of individuals. © MCB UP Limited 1986 Co‐operation Education Industries Libraries Academic/Industrial Links by A. Rennie McElroy Introduction The forging of links between different types of library is of great significance at present. I believe that while...

... expectations Industries Libraries Non-users in Industry and Commerce by Margaret Slater WHAT does the term non-user mean in an industrialcommercial context? Does it mean, for instance, somebody who never uses or perhaps never needs information or documents? No, the non-user so defined becomes too rare...

...Margery Roaf Much of the success of industrial libraries stems from their ability to tap outside resources and their knowledge of other library networks. An enormous amount of “free floating goodwill” can be found in the library community and should not be ignored in favour of high technology...

... managers and consultants realise this, and are aware that the industrial way of life is passing. This dominant paradigm or world view permeated our basic way of perceiving, thinking, valuing, and acting. A new vision of reality is emerging, fueled by the Information Revolution and the high technologies...