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Category Archives: Business Information Review
The longest running survey into trends in the information and knowledge sector
The annual Business Information Review Survey has been published annually since 1991, now in its 26th year the survey, due to be published in March’s Business Information Review has some interesting insights from information and knowledge leaders into the ever evolving information and knowledge sector. Of particular importance is the emphasis on soft skills and a commercial mind-set. Perhaps controversially, technical skills such as taxonomy and cataloging are not seen as important as they are seen as more easy to teach. Below is a snapshot of what the survey will report this year including come interesting insights and suggestions into provision of services from information vendors
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New editorial board members for Business Information Review
Business Information Review has new editors!
Claire and Luke will be ‘official editors’ for the September 2015 issue onwards. However they are already working with us to ensure the handover of the journal is as smooth as possible.
Scott Brown joins BIR Editorial Board
- Mobile apps: Which ones really matter to the information professional?, Scott Brown, Business Information Review, December 2012; vol. 29, 4: pp. 231-237.
- Coping with information obesity: A diet for information professionals, Scott Brown, Business Information Review, September 2012; vol. 29, 3: pp. 168-173.
- Social media for company research: A few of the best tools, Scott Brown, Business Information Review, September 2011; vol. 28, 3: pp. 163-174
BIR Best Paper Prize – Congratulations to Chris Rivinus
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Business Information Review Best Paper Prize is Chris Rivinus.
An announcement about our Editorial Advisory Board
Following Veronica’s retirement as Director of Information at Rothschild, she has decided to retire from the Editorial Board. We would like to take this opportunity to thank her for her involvement with BIR over many years and to wish her well for the future. Veronica ran the information department at Rothschild from 1991 till the end of 2013 and was acknowledged as a leading information professional in the Finance sector. Business information has been her focus since her postgraduate diploma in Information Science gained at City University. Her breadth of experience at the London Business School and in the corporate sector with Bain and Company and Goldman Sachs gave her a unique perspective on the content direction and the range of topics that we cover and we truly appreciate her contribution.
We are delighted to welcome the following people to our Editorial Advisory Board Team:
- Steve Dale (Collabor8now)
- Ceri Hughes (KPMG)
- Mary Peterson (South Australia Health Library Service
- Stephen Phillips (Morgan Stanley)
- Gillian Ragsdell (Loughborough University)
They join our existing Board members Martin Ainsworth, Anthony Capstick and Penny Leach and our colleague Allan Foster (who writes our regular Initiatives column as well as the annual Survey.
We look forward to working with all of them this year.
Business Information Review – best paper prize 2013
In 2012 we launched our Annual Award for the best paper published in Business Information Review.