Information Processing in Social Services: A Review of Project INISS

Authors

Roger A. Lohmann, West Virginia UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 1983

College/Unit

Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

Department/Program/Center

Social Work

Abstract

Project INISS is a research project seeking to establish the information processing practices of social workers in Great Britain. This article summarizes its most important findings for U.S. social workers and social administrators. Originally published in 1983, this article offers a snapshot of information practices in human services organizations a decade before the widespread adoption of the internet and just prior to the early beginnings of ubiquitous – nearly universal – use of computers for record keeping and information processing by social workers.

Digital Commons Citation

Lohmann, Roger A., "Information Processing in Social Services: A Review of Project INISS" (1983). Faculty & Staff Scholarship. 1161.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/faculty_publications/1161

Source Citation

A revised version of this article appeared in Administration in Social Work, 7. 2. Summer, 1983, pp. 91-97.

Comments

Author's preprint with a few corrections and minor revisions.