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INTRODUCTORY NOTE
B. Th.The Oxford English dictionary defines a document as ‘something written … which furnishes evidence or information upon any subject’, and documentation as the ‘preparation or use of…
MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENTS OF ASLIB
FREDERIC GEORGE KENYON, HENRY TIZARD, CHARLES SCOTT SHERRINGTON, RICHARD BT. ARMAN GREGORY, HARRY ALEXANDER FANSHAWE LINDSAY, WILLIAM HENRY BEVERIDGE, ROBERT SALMON HUTTONThe pride of bibliography is its service to research. It is itself laborious, often pedestrian, a mechanical recording of details or a summarizing of the works of others; but it…
THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF ASLIB
R.S. HUTTONThe stimulus given by the last war to the study of foreign industrial practice probably had much to do with laying the foundations on which, by the well‐timed action of a few…
THE PHILADELPHIA BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CENTER
RUDOLF HIRSCHThe Philadelphia Bibliographical Center and Union Library Catalogue developed out of two separate organizations: the Union Library Catalogue of the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area…
DRAFT PLAN FOR THE PUBLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
N.W. PIRIEOur present habits in scientific publication are comparatively recent and have sprung from the interaction of many different factors that have operated differently in different…
A FEW REMARKS ON DOCUMENTARY REPRODUCTION IN GENERAL AND MICROFILM IN PARTICULAR
LUCIA MOHOLYOn 18 February 1945 the Conference of the Association of Scientific Workers passed a resolution stressing the urgent need for the closest collaboration between scientists of all…
PLEA FOR A BRITISH UNION CATALOGUE OF OLD PRINTED MUSIC
O.E. DEUTSCHComparisons between continental and British music libraries on the one hand and British and American on the other give evidence of the richness of Great Britain in the field of…
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BULLETIN (. . .) OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE U.S.S.R.
THEODORE BESTERMANThis most complicated of all periodicals was first published as the Bulletin scientifique [A], ten volumes of which were issued from 1836 to 1842. It was then divided into two…
ISSN:
0022-0418Online date, start – end:
1945Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof David Bawden