“…The reports on these surveys form part of the substantial body of literature on career aspirations, manpower needs, professional competencies and education and training needs in the library and information world reviewed by Loughridge (Loughridge, 1990). Since then, further published reports from elsewhere have, amongst other things, reviewed the relevance of practitioners' input to curriculum design, employment patterns and the labour market for information professionals in the United States, Europe and elsewhere (Buttlar and Du Mont, 1989;Pors, 1990;Clausen, 1990;Clausen, 1991;Bray and Turner, 1991;Pors, 1994;Bowden and Olivier, 1995;Weingand, 1995). A number of papers at the lst British-Nordic LIS Conference in Copenhagen in 1995 also dealt with aspects of professional education, continuing professional development, student skills, students' perceptions of the curriculum and the relationship between theory and practice in professional education (Burke, 1995;Burke and Cornelius, 1995;Clyde, 1995;Cochrane, 1995;Davenport and McKim, 1995;Dixon, 1995;Goulding, 1995;Hancock-Beaulieu and Pors, 1995;Hannesd6ttir, 1995; Hjorland and Albrechtsen, 1995; Hansson and Zetterlund, 1995;Iivonen, 1995;Kinnell, 1995;Kortelainen, 1995;Loughridge, 1995: Marcella, 1995Morris and Sargent, 1995;Olander, 1995;Pors, 1995;Wormell, 1995).…”