The compilation of a new textbook on business information sources (Navigating business information sources: a practical guide for information managers, Library Association, 1998) provided the authors with an opportunity to consider and review developments in business information, including the...

Describes the formation of the Business Link Information Service (BLIS) by Business Link Oldham, UK, and the three year limit to government funding of Business Links, which obliged BLIS to seek means for charging for its services. Presents details of a project undertaken to introduce a charging...

Documents as we encounter them in everyday life are complex and diverse things, whether on paper, computer disk or on the World Wide Web. They play many roles vis‐à‐vis human beings, and the humans engaged with them have diverse responsibilities that are not always easy to fulfil. Added to...

This paper considers the issues surrounding the fit between information systems and organisation structures. The paper uses philosophical ideas concerning knowledge and applies them to organisational design and information processing in order to encourage alternative perspectives and new ideas....