Education for information and library work

In the last few years there has been a marked widening in the employment possibilities for information scientists. Apart from the traditional outlets in special libraries and in information departments in the science based industries, they have been recruited by local government planning departments, accountants, merchant banks, specialist publishers, law firms, etc. Even with the traditional employers their range of activities has increased. In the pharmaceutical industry, for example, this trend has been catalysed by the 1968 drug registration legislation. Furthermore, work such as Dr Stevenson has just describedi is slowly bearing fruit and producing a more information conscious clientele.