Aslib Proceedings: Volume 5 Issue 1

INTRODUCTION

E.M.R. DITMAS

This issue of Aslib Proceedings contains papers given at the London and Branch meetings of Aslib, reports of recent conferences on the U.D.C. and on standardization in…

HOW TO START AN INDUSTRIAL LIBRARY

D.J. FOSKETT

Duringthe last century, the growth and increasing complexity of our industry has brought about a radical change in the pattern of its development. The improvement of production…

INDUSTRY AND THE PUBLIC LIBRARY IN KINGSTON‐UPON‐HULL

J. BINNS

Thatpublic libraries should be a source of commercial, technical and scientific information is not a new idea to librarians; but it is an idea which has been slow to bear fruit…

IF I HAD MY WAY—WITH PUBLISHERS

B. AGARD EVANS

I lovepublishers. Let me make that point crystal‐clear before I embark on the main theme. I love publishers. Apart from the fact that their activities provide me with my job, I…

SIGNPOSTS: SOME SELECTIONS FROM THE 1952 SPECIAL LIBRARY LITERATURE

J. BIRD, E.M.R. DITMAS

This paper is the first of what is intended to be an annual survey of the literature of documentation, covering both special librarianship and information work. Its aim is to…

INTERNATIONAL U.D.C. DEVELOPMENTS IN 1952: Report of the meetings of the International U.D.C. Committee and Sub‐committees during the conference of the International Federation for Documentation held in Copenhagen, 29th September to 4th October, 1952

G.A. LLOYD

This F.I.D. restricted conference was, from the point of view of the U.D.C., almost too ambitious in its programme, considering that meetings of the Council and of the experts on…

STANDARDS IN DOCUMENTATION: Extracts from an unofficial report of the meeting of Technical Committee 46 (Documentation) of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), held in Copenhagen, 6th to 8th October, 1952

G.A. LLOYD

Representatives of the following thirteen countries participated:

THE NATIONAL CENTRAL LIBRARY: Extracts from the Thirty‐sixth Annual Report of the National Central Library for the year ending 29th February, 1952

The total issues of books from or through the Library show that its services to all categories of libraries have not only been maintained in the face of continual difficulties and…