The Consultancy and Research Unit (CRUS) of the Department of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield has recently carried out a number of investigations into the use of information in business with financial support from the British Library R & D Department. On the basis of this work...

I have given this address the title, ‘In the beginning was the word…’, which is not exactly a novel coinage! However, they are words worth remembering, since they draw attention to the primacy of the word in the formation of our understanding (and, indeed, definition) of the world around...

Prologue: a fairy tale– Once upon a time there were four Goblins who were, of course, chartered accountants. They became tired of counting hoards of gold for the Gnomes so they sought help from the Wizard of Ecognomeics. “We want our own treasure chests,” they pleaded. “That’s easy,”...