Special Libraries articles from March 1996

Special Libraries archives from March 1996

Museum Libraries: The More Things Change
March 22, 1996... Museum: An organized and permanent nonprofit institution, essentially educational or aesthetic in purpose, with professional staff, which owns and utilizes tangible objects, cares for them, and exhibits them to the public on some regular schedule....

Information Policy Audit: A Case Study of an Organizational Analysis Tool
March 22, 1996... Introduction In order for organizational management activities to be conscious, deliberate, and collaborative efforts, they must be supported by an effective information infrastructure with rationale and protocols. This infrastructure must be...

Technical Communications in Engineering and Science: The Practices within a Government Defense Laboratory
March 22, 1996... Introduction The technical communication and information-related activities of engineers and scientists have been a topic of study and discussion for more than 40 years. There is little to challenge the notion that both groups rely heavily on...

Positioning Strategic Information: Partnering for the Information Advantage
March 22, 1996... Introduction In Hamal and Prahalad's book titled Competing for the Future (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1994), they analyze current concepts about competitiveness in the context of today's revolutions: "the environmental revolution, the...

The Higher Managers Are in an Organization, the Worse Information They Get
March 22, 1996... Problem The higher managers are in an organization, the worse information they get. This seemingly outlandish statement is my conclusion after practicing 28 years as an information scientist in a corporation. The reasons behind it are simple....