Creating an information awareness

Issue title: Special Issue containing papers from the Fall 1981 Meeting of the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers on “The Re-use and Re-packaging of Bibliographic Information: Issues and Problems”, Alexandria, Virginia, September 13–15, 1981

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Huleatt, Richard S.

Affiliations: Information Intelligence, Inc., P.O. Box 31098, Phoenix, Arizona 85046, USA

Abstract: This presentation reviews the extremely rapid developments in information technology and use over the last few decades, with observations on data-transfer restrictions and the problem of copyright. In this context, the author introduces and discusses the currently controversial questions of information re-use and re-packaging, along with the matters of government/commercial sector participation, usage-fees, and software-development. The A-C-C-E-S-STM and OMNILINKTM software packages for microcomputers are described. There is discussion of abstracting/indexing services and of their relations with primary publishers, in historical perspective. The author stresses the necessity for caution and careful deliberation in choosing a computer-based system for purchase. The presentation closes with a recounting of some factors that will influence the re-use and re-packaging of information in the future, an expansion on the concept of the ‘information warehouse’, and a description of some of the operating procedures followed by Information Intelligence for its information-retrieval services.

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-1982-1603

Journal: Information Services & Use, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 331-340, 1982