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Stability is not immobility

Business Information Resources Survey 2006

Pam Foster

pam.foster{at}vivavip.com

Allan Foster

allan{at}allanfoster.co.uk

This article surveys the use of business information in UK libraries, based on two questionnaires sent to libraries/information departments in autumn 2005.

Summary of findings:

  • stable and improving budgetary and staffing position;
  • more outsourcing and offshoring;
  • quality of new staff improving;
  • KM increasingly recognized and mainstreamed;
  • e-content improvement, service development and end-user training are top three strategic priorities; and
  • market for pay-as-you-go access bottoming out.

Key Words: business information • information resources • surveys

Business Information Review, Vol. 23, No. 2, 83-107 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0266382106065731
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