To celebrate the 40th anniversary of IFLA journal, the chair of the editorial committee, Jerry Mansfield, has put together a history of the journal, which demonstrates its rich intellectual history and role in Information and Library Sciences, and the development of its editorial purview over the last 40 successful years.

Business Information Review podcast on the 2013 Business Information Survey: Sandra Ward, Principal Consultant at Beaworthy Consulting and Co-Editor of Business Information Review (BIR), and Allan Foster, Information Industry Consultant and author of the 2013 Business Information Survey in volume 30, issue 1 of BIR, discuss the history of the survey, now in its 23rd year, as well as some of the findings of this year’s survey.