- Title
- Consultancy And Contract Work in the Information Industry
- Description
- A survey and study in the consulting and contracting sectors of librarianship, records management, archives, and information management in New Zealand.
- Status
- Completed.
- Start date
- April 2001
- Completion date
- August 2003
- Abstract
- The consulting and contracting sectors of these closely allied fields in the information indsutry share many common features. Results provide information about how this sector operates, the types of work undertaken, and the necessary skills and attributes for success. Key findings were also compared to similar surveys conducted in Australia and the U.K.
- Key Words
- « | Consultants | »,
« | Contractors | »,
« | Freelancers | »,
« Secondary Student Survey 2001 | Survey | Digitisation Survey 2001 ».
- Publications
- Fields, Alison. Consultancy and Contract Work in the Information Industry. Working Paper 4–03. Lower Hutt: The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, 2003.
Fields, Alison. ‘Consultancy and Contract Work: The New Zealand Perspective.’
Australian Library Journal 52, no.1, (February 2003): 31–44.
Fields, Alison. ‘The Independents: The Contracting and Consulting Sector of the Information Industry.’
New Zealand Libraries 49, no. 6 (March 2002): 208–213, 222.
Fields, Alison. ‘Contracting and Consulting in the Information Arena.’ In 9th Special, Health and Law Libraries 2001: Conference Media CD. Doncaster: Vic: Conference Media Services Australia, 2001.
- Researcher(s)
- Alison Fields
Senior Lecturer
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
