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The article argues that many of the difficulties encountered in exploiting computer‐integrated technologies result from their being implemented as part of an attempt to change from a mass production to a flexible manufacturing paradigm. It is further argued that this also requires changes in the organisational paradigm in order to create a social system capable of supporting flexible manufacturing. Results of a study of 28 companies and 46 applications of computer‐integrated technologies are reported showing that there are widespread changes in organisation at the levels of work, management and inter‐organisational relationships. The empirical findings support the argument of a paradigm shift and detail the organisational dimensions on which this is taking place.

SOMEWHAT ENERVATED, this day, to receive in the same post letters addressed to ‘Clive Bongley Ltd’, ‘Clair Bingley Ltd’, and a tearsheet advertisement circulated by our Australian agents of ten years' standing describing us as ‘Charles Bingley Ltd’.

Down my way in October there was the “unique event of a Trade Union leader being inslalled by his boss” as the TU leader so described it.

THE LONDON ACADEMIC BOOK FAIR, which we organised on April 30, attracted a very respectable turnout of librarians, and not just from academic libraries either. It was good to see them, and I hope they found the day useful, with 131 stands to inspect and a busy but much less frenetic atmosphere than ruled at the London Book Fair last October.

IT REALLY IS very hard to have one's kindliest intentions kicked back into one's teeth.

This monograph contains abstracts from the 2005 Employment Research Unit Annual Conference Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, 6‐7th September 2005

YOU WILL HAVE seen, no doubt, recent announcements that my wife and I have sold our book‐publishing business of Clive Bingley Ltd to the Munich‐based firm of international reference publishers, Verlag Dokumentation.

MELVYN BARNES, Borough Librarian & Arts Officer of the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (London), was asked to prepare a report for his libraries committee on the possibility of selling withdrawn library books to the public—that rumbling bandwagon which inevitably looks attractive to local authorities in hard times.

J.B. PRIESTLEY has always been Jack Priestley to his friends; but what is not so well known is the fact that Clive Staples Lewis was also intimately known as Jack. In early childhood he took a hearty dislike to his formal title, and insisted on being called ‘Jacksie’. This evolved into Jack; and Jack he stayed.

WHITHER OSTI? I ruminate, as this year ends and 1977 dawns. When the British Library was formed, and the incorporation of the then Office for Scientific & Technical Information into the BL's Research and Development Division was mooted, doubts were expressed whether the bl maw would foreclose on osti's independence of grant‐action, and, to still them, the secretary‐of‐state at the time gave an undertaking safeguarding that independence.