TIME TO THINK—USE OF The SYSTEMS APPROACH TO The PROBLEMS OF The ‘ONE‐MAN’ INFORMATION UNIT

Emerald - Tập 19 Số 12 - Trang 406-415 - 1967
T.WHITEHALL1
1Information Officer, Brooke Bond Research Laboratories

Tóm tắt

One result of being a ‘small’ librarian has been that, although hired to provide a current awareness service and write reviews for a research staff, I must spend a proportion of my time in arranging for the buying, cataloguing, lending, borrowing and binding of books and other material. However, I do not see these two sorts of activity as separate in any way, but as both containing elements of two fundamentally different approaches to human effort, which I shall call the professional and the clerical. If I was entirely on my own, my professional hat would be worn when deciding what book to buy, what words to use as indexing labels, what ideas in a paper were relevant, what advantages a newly available reproduction process would have over the system in use in my library. My clerical hat would get an airing when I passed on a request for a book purchase, typed and filed the index cards, or arranged for a record of a loan to be made.

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Emerald

Tập 19 Số 12

406-415

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