Aslib Proceedings: Volume 32 Issue 6

Informing the citizen: a wide ranging provision to meet a wide ranging need

Alan Peacock

I start this talk with two acknowledgements; the first, to my colleagues on the recent Library Association Working Party on Community Information Services. Our report is due to be…

Will information flow to the citizen be improved with videotex systems?

A.E. Cawkell

My first reaction to the word ‘citizen’ is an image of masses of people storming the Bastille. Apparently this image is not all that absurd since the new Collins dictionary says…

Computers and information for the citizen. What is missing? Where are the gaps?

Judith Bowen

Although I rather light heartedly agreed to talk to this title early on in the year, when I came to write the paper I found it difficult to explain the ideas I wanted to put…

Socio‐economic implications of the new information technology

RC Usherwood

Over the past year or so I have been invited to speak on this subject by the Department of Education and Science, the Library Association, and the Community Projects Foundation…

Educational implications of the new information technology

Michael Aston

We, the educationalists, have never been very good at incorporating new technologies into the educational system.