Columns

Abstract

Ninety per cent of information handled within libraries, information units and offices is printed on paper. This comes in the form of books, journals, newsprint and miscellaneous documents including letters. At the same time information originating within organisations is increasingly generated on computers and is displayed and read via electronic screens. Libraries, information units and offices are becoming a mix of the automated and the unautomated. In the past, integrating printed material with computer stored material was impractical. The electronic storage of documents as images rather than computer coded text required storage capacity beyond the scope of many computer systems.

Citation

Day, S., Fleming, E. and Bunch, A. (1989), "Columns", New Library World, Vol. 90 No. 10, pp. 190-195. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb038804