New technological horizons and opportunities for LIS

Abstract

The Library & Information Systems Technology conference LIST '97 took place for the first time in September 1997 at the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, aimed at chief librarians, information centre managers, senior executives and corporate information providers who are affected by the issues raised by the use of technology in library and information work. On 11 September Elspeth Hyams, Director of the Institute of Information Scientists (http://www.iis.org.uk/), gave this talk on what the information professional must do to survive in the future. The talk was given as part of the topic stream ‘Networking the next millennium's libraries’. LIST '97 was organised by Infologistix: its home page is http://www.infologistix.co.uk/infologistix/list97.htm.

Citation

Hyams, E. (1997), "New technological horizons and opportunities for LIS", The Electronic Library, Vol. 15 No. 6, pp. 455-462. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb045596