IN this brief paper outlining the new MSc course in Information Studies, I propose to consider five questions:

The previous speakers in this symposium considered in varying detail the questions ‘who’, ‘how’, ‘where’, and ‘what’, in relation to manpower and its education and training. In this paper I intend to return to the question ‘what’, and, in particular, to consider four main...

Three statements by Dr R K Appleyard, the Director‐General for Scientific and Technical Information and Information Management at the Commission of the European Communities, set the scene for the Workshop on training users of EURONET, held in Luxembourg on 13th–16th December 1976. ‘Western...