ABSTRACT
Teleworking is more appropriate for people whose career development prospects depend as much on the development of the individual's skills as on a good knowledge of company culture. Typical tasks for teleworking include: report writing, research, online information retrieval, editing, indexing, cataloguing, translation, computer programming, data entry, typing and word processing, and administration. Some activities contain elements that can be teleworked. For example, although training courses for staff or users are generally delivered at a specified time and place, they may be developed off site. Some writers are optimistic about the potential of teleworking to provide new opportunities for Library and Information science professionals. Pinder believes that flexible working is particularly relevant for libraries, in which a high proportion of the workforce are women, whose skills are often lost when they leave the profession to raise a family. Information consultancy grew out of the library sector and expanded when library automation systems became widespread.
