Personal transferable skills for the modern information professional; comments on the paper by Sarah Gash and Denis Reardon

Forty years ago, well before information had attracted academic interest, similar criticisms were loudly voiced about the lack of similar skills in science and engineering students. At University College London (UCL), the head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Professor R.O. Kapp, with long experience of the industrial world before becoming an academic, responded promptly to the criticisms by establishing a post for a Lecturer in the Presentation of Technical Information