Author Biography
IRENE S. FARKAS-CONN is a consultant, an internationally known expert on information management, and an advocate of new computing, telecommunication, and optical disc technologies to make most effective use of information. A frequent lecturer in the United States and abroad, her experience has led her to examine not only how people use information and how it is transferred, but how organizations can be made to function more effectively. She served on the board of the American Society for Information Science, the Information for Industry Committee of the International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID/II), and on a working committee of the U.S. Department of State. Dr. Farkas-Conn has also received the Watson Davis award of ASIS.
