Neelameghan A. (Professor)Negeri Bekele2020-05-272023-11-182020-05-272023-11-181992-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/21342with an overall objective of identifying the information needs and problems of the public manufacturing sub-sector and proposing recommendations for the development of the national industrial information systems and services, a questionnaire survey was made on 34 enterprises and their employees and a total of 159 completed questionnaire were collected and analyzed. Assessments were made on the general features of the manufacturing sector, industria~ technology transfer and R&D activities, and the existing industrial information sources, systems and services based on the literature on the subjects and interviews. Most of the enterprises (91%) do not have any organised information unit nor do they have concrete plans and programmes to establish such a unit in the near future. But the majority of the respondents (81%) believe their firms need their own information units and they think the major factor for the absence such units in the enterprises was lack of management awareness than shortage of the required resources. The major areas of information need were production, technical and marketing in that sequence. Though the enterprises were depending on various external information sources for the needed information, the dependence on library/information centers is very low compared to other sources mainly because neither the collection of their information centers in order to address the identified problems and needs, and to improve the industrial information systems and services, measures needed to be taken at the levels of the Ministry of Industry, industry-groups and enterprises are .. suggested • nor their services could meet their requirements.enInformation ScienceThesis