Are students still being told that books are their main source of
information?
Why not take advantage of the web? Sheila Webber's site on business
information
http://www.dis.strath.ac.uk/business/index.html
and the RBA site
http://www.rba.co.uk/sources/index.htm
have lots of guidance and annotated links.
You can view articles from various periodicals on the web e.g. Online,
Database, Information World Review.
And there is useful information on the IIS site. Maybe you won't find
the equivalent of a whole book , but you can get a lot of information.
These are just a few suggestions - happy surfing!
Celia Hukins
Celia Hukins
Manager, Aberdeen Business Shop
27 Albyn Place
Aberdeen AB10 1DB
Scotland
Tel: (44) (01) 1224 575100; Fax: (44) (0) 1224 580055
email: [log in to unmask]
"Information to help your business grow"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Webster [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 06 May 1999 16:33
> To: Dale Moore
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Pricey Books!
>
> In defence of pricey books and students,
>
> Why demean students? They are the professionals of the future. Just
> because a book has students as one segment of its targeted market, why
> should that necessarily demean the quality of the content?
>
> Also, if there is a limited market for a product by reducing the cost
> you will reduce the revenue from it. It doesn't make sense.
>
> Business information is a valuable commodity and has the potential to
> generate millions of pounds profit. 30 pounds for a wee book is surely
> a
> small price to pay.
>
> If I weren't a poor student I'd buy a copy today.
>
> Stuart Webster
> IM student at Queen Margaret University College
>
>
> In message
> <[log in to unmask]>
> , Dale Moore <[log in to unmask]> writes
> >I attended the LA run workshop yesterday entitled "Managing a
> Business
> >Information Service" which I found very useful. Being a relative
> newcomer to
> >the world of business information (and therefore useful sources) I
> decided
> >it would be a good idea to buy a book on the subject.
> >
> >I 'discovered' "Navigating Business Information Sources" by Burke &
> Hall
> >which looked excellent till I saw the price tag of £30.00. Now I
> appreciate
> >that a lot of work has gone into the writing of the book and that
> it's
> >difficult to estimate its potential value and use to me, but it is a
> >paperback after all.
> >
> >How can this price be justified, particularly when the blurb on the
> back
> >cover mentions students among its potential readership. I'm sure the
> authors
> >don't get much money out of it, and to claim that the price reflects
> a small
> >print run (it is a specialist book and not a Penguin classic) seems a
> lame
> >excuse.
> >
> >Surely the objective of the publisher (The Library Association) is to
> shift
> >as many copies as possible - so why the unecessarily high price?
> >
> >Dale
> >
> >DALE MOORE
> >INFORMATION SPECIALIST
> >BUSINESS LINK LONDON EAST
> >
> >TEL: 0181 432 0424
> >FAX: 0181 432 0499
> >
> >[log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Stuart Webster
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