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Closure of "Information for Business"

Author:

Anne Storey

Date:

Wednesday, 27th Aug 2003 17:09

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Westminster City Council are to close "Information for Business" at the end of September. O.K, it's not a free service, but it taps into the vast information resources of Westminster Reference Library on your behalf. Please write to Westminster!

Libraries & Archives
Westminster City Council
PO Box 240
Westminster City Hall
64 Victoria Street
London
SW1E 6QP

The part of the Council's web site that mentions IfB has already gone, but there is a cached version on Google at
http://216.239.33.104/search?q=cache:gu9Y51nHUpUJ:www.westminster.gov.uk/libraries/services/ifb.cfm+%22information+for+business%22+westminster+council&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 if anyone wants to see what they do/did...

Anne Storey, Research Librarian

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	Closure of "Information for Business"
	Westminster City Council are to close "Information for Business" at the end of September. O.K, it's not a free ...

Anne Storey

27/08/03 17:09

25401

	Re: Closure of "Information for Business"
	Anne - are you able to post this, or get it posted via CILIP staff, to the various other CILIP ...

Sue Harris

29/08/03 12:26

25431

	Re: Closure of "Information for Business"
	Dear Anne, I am shocked to hear of this latest development. I always thought IFB was a valuable resource for all ...

Jane Macoustra

28/08/03 19:18

25417

	Re: Closure of "Information for Business"
	I have alerted CILIP, who are considering how they can respond and Tim Buckley Owen did give me some good ...

Anne Storey

29/08/03 10:02

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	Re: Closure of "Information for Business"
	I currently use IFB for Hansard searches and am wondering whether anyone has experience of using alternative sources (either online ...

Roshan Khan

09/09/03 13:56

25587

	Re: Closure of "Information for Business"
	Hi. Hansard and other resources can be searched, free, here http://www.publications.parliament.uk/cgi-bin/dialogserverTSO?DB=ukparl&FILE=searchJS&DATETYPE=ANY

Rob

12/09/03 15:51

25635

	Re: Closure of "Information for Business"
	The only other service we have heard of is search@guildhall, which is run by the Guildhall Library. They charge ...

Anne Storey

12/09/03 14:32

25633

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