This file presents an archive copy of the issue of the FYI France enewsletter, ISSN 1071-5916, which was distributed via email on October 15, 1997. One of the largest and oldest information brokerage firms in fact is French. A better - organized and certainly older professional group, now increasingly involved in the Information Profession, is the Indexers. The old questions of whether and how to arrange human knowledge, which faced the print publishers of the 16th and 17th centuries, are being re - opened for the digital age. Again, professionals, performing the service of helping people to find information, increasingly in digital formats and online.
Lawyers are members of an ancient, disciplined, and elaborately - regulated profession of their own.
Their professional activities span a very wide range. A large and increasing part of legal education consists of mastering digital information search and retrieval techniques. As the sophistication of the design, production and publication of digital texts has grown, so has the tendency for writers to seek out professional help for their illustrations, formatting, and text editing. Graphic designers and editors increasingly are learning to use email, and more. Engineers It would be unfair, and inaccurate, to minimize the role played by engineers in helping people to use digital information.