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Brember, V. L. – Journal of Documentation, 1985
Presents Checkland's soft systems methodology, discusses it in terms of the systems approach, and illustrates how it was used to relate evidence of user survey to practical problems of library management. Difficulties in using methodology are described and implications for library management and information science research are presented. (8…
Descriptors: Flow Charts, Foreign Countries, Information Needs, Information Systems

Matheson, Nina W.; Cooper, John A. D. – Journal of Medical Education, 1982
The rationale for the long-range development of integrated institutional information management networks is presented. How such networks can be achieved through the development of a technologically sophisticated library is described, and why a new library concept is essential in the emerging electronics-dominated information environment is…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Allied Health Occupations Education, Computers, Educational Technology