Aslib Proceedings: Volume 38 Issue 9
Table of contents
Intelligence networks, overview, purpose and policies in the context of global social change
Tom StonierThe growth of information networks coupled to the emergence of intelligent databases and expert systems will not only profoundly affect our daily lives, particularly in areas of…
Decision support systems: learning to apply computers
Gavin LeslieDecision support systems (DSS) are a process common to all decision‐making and are essentially individualistic. DSS were externalised to improve management productivity and to…
Corporate intelligence networks
Geoffrey WoodlingIn a global economy the corporation, like the state, needs an intelligence capability. Few corporations currently possess such a capability, but the loss of serving government…
Public sector finance ‐ strategies for library and information units ‐ the relationship between central and local government finance
Tony TraversThe relationship between central and local government in Britain has changed rapidly since the early 1970s. Several factors have worked to produce an increasingly difficult…
Community information policy and provision
Pat ColemanIn this session I want to take the conference theme — ‘Information for decision‐making’ and attempt to examine how the development of community information provision in public…
Academic libraries in contraction: facts, theories and fancies
Graham MackenzieAll publicly‐funded libraries have been hard hit by the government's financial policies since the early 1980s; it may be that a measure of austerity is beneficial, in that it…
Non‐profit organisations in the UK online database market
Harry EastThe growth of UK produced online databases is explored with particular reference to activities in and the problems of marketing in the non‐profit sector.