The late Mark Perlman, formerly Professor of Economics, Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh, US.

• List of Participants -- Introduction -- The Technology of the Library Industry and Its Use for Economic Research -- The Use of Libraries by Economists: A Personal View -- Computerised Approaches to the Literature of Economics: from ISIS to DEVSIS -- National Economic Information Systems for Developed Economies -- The Organization of Quantitative Data in Brazil -- The Economics of the Economics Library Industry and Its Implications -- The Effectiveness of Secondary Information Systems in Economics and Industry -- The High Cost of Information and Some Approaches to Its Acquisition -- Interlocking Catalogues -- Organizing an Inter-Library Network: The State University of New York Approach -- Economics of Computerized Library Networks -- The Changing Modes of Data in Recent Research -- Information Needs of Researchers and their Implications for the Library Industry -- Developments in National Accounts -- The Usefulness of Microdata and some Strategies for the Storing, Using, and Disposing of it -- Library Policies for Research in Monetary Economics -- Development of Fiscal Economics during the Decade 1975–85 -- Information Needs in Regional Economies -- Information Needs and Data Requirements for International Economic Research -- Data Needs in Development Economics -- Information Needs for Agricultural Development, Policy and Planning -- Competition versus Planned Specialization in the Development of Resources for Research in Industrial Organization -- Some Information about Technological Progress and Economic Growth -- The Relevance of Recent Trends in Economic History to the Information Needs of Research Workers in the Field -- The Information Needs of Economic Researchers in the Field of Comparative Economic Systems* -- Data in the Planned Economy of the USSR -- The History of Economic Thought and Analysis; Organization and Retrieval of its Content -- The Nature of Economics and Its Implications for the Organization of Economic Knowledge -- Economics and Contiguous Disciplines -- Methodologies of Economics