Current Awareness Current Techniques

Current awareness services are vital to many libraries, particularly special information services providing services to companies and organizations where up‐to‐the‐minute information is vital and justifies the existence of the unit. A broad spectrum of experience enables Feona Hamilton to provide a full, clear and readable guide to all the steps involved in assessing and establishing a range of services which will fulfil the information requirements of all levels of management.

The definition of a current awareness service as “a service which provides the recipient with information on the latest developments within the subject areas in which he or she has...