The article looks at the Secretary of Internal Affaris' latest restructuring scheme, to establish a Heritage New Zealand group within the Department which will encompass the national Archives. Some comparisons are made with the state of public archives management in the United States and Australia. Nevertheless, the country suffers from a certain lack of information ease of access, which is particularly evident when seeking to gain access to government information. Currently, there is no public debate as to how to turn Spain into an information society, whatever this term is to mean, and what little there is is focused moe on infrastructure than on the more important infostructure. However, improvements in these mechanisms, especially computer control and the ability to interface with online library catalogs, make them a viable option for libraries.
Questions remain about the appropriateness of treating intellectual material like industrial parts.
In addition, access is still an issue especially in regard to government depository documents. Her research interests include knowledge management methodologies and metrics, development of a knowledge management reference model, intellectual property issues in an electronic environment, and U.S. and international technology and information policy. Michaelyn Haslam is the Physical Sciences Librarian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She received her M.L.I.S. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her B.S. from California State University, Los Angeles. She worked on specifications and on materials selection for the Automated Storage and Retrieval System planned for the new library building.