Future of SATIS now assured
SATIS, the business-in-formation library service, has an assured future with a Ministerial statement. The Minister of Overseas Trade and 'Marketing, Mr Moore, the Minister for Trade and Industry, Mr Caygill, and the Minister for the National Library, Mr Marshall, have said in a joint statement that the National Library’s information service to business and industry is to be extended and strengthened over the next three years. SATIS (Scientific and Technical Information Service) was established in 1974 and serves 670 members from its centres in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch. For several years it has not been able to meet demand and has had waiting lists for membership. Christchurch, with 275 of the members, is the biggest SATIS centre. It has the most interest from small business. Most of Auckland’s inquiries are from large businesses and departmental inquiries are important in Wellington.
Mr Moore said that financial approval for the extension of the service recognised the importance of in-
formation to industrial innovation and technological development. These were critical to competitiveness on overseas markets, and had drawn a lot of attention at the recent conference on Science and Technology for Development.
Mr Marshall expressed his pleasure that the National Library now had the opportunity of letting SATIS develop its full potential. He said that plans included the appointment of a manager, opening new centres at Hamilton and Dunedin, and extra staff at existing centres. Fees for the use of SATIS, which had been unchanged since 1974, would have to be increased, but the Government would still provide half the cost of running the service.
SATIS would also still continue to rely on access to library resources funded by local authorities, which have always welcomed SATIS as an extension of, and contribution to. their own regional development programmes. Mr Caygill said that the level of funding showed that Government was committed to economic development and acknowledged in-
dustry, as much as agriculture, needed a service which could actively encourage the use of information.
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