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BARBARA KYLE
LESLIE WILSONAs her many friends and colleagues all over the world already know, Barbara Kyle retired prematurely at the end of June from her twin posts on the staff of Aslib: Research…
THE PUBLISHING PROBLEM—A KITE FOR POLICY MAKERS
J.E. MORPURGOThe communications block is undeniable and its removal imperative. No modern society—and least of all Britain—can prosper unless it hastens the process which translates original…
THE LIBRARY AS AN AGENCY OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
J.H. SHERAThe act of communicating is, by definition, the transmission of a message from a communicator to a receptor. The message may be a simple signal or an extensive body of oral or…
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY AS THE BASIS OF A NATIONAL LIBRARY
FRANK FRANCISOne of the advantages of Festschriften according to a recent correspondent in the Times Literary Supplement is that ‘they help us to find out what the middle‐aged are thinking’…
VITAL PROBLEMS OF INTERNATIONAL LIBRARIES
A.C. BREYCHA‐VAUTHIERLibraries grow in an ever‐increasing number around international organizations. New buildings arise and existing ones are adapted. Great sums are spent out of the budget of…
THE ANSWER?—THAT IS THE QUESTION
G.W. HORNERR.G. Collingwood, a writer we all looked into in the thirties, said that it was not the answer that was of first significance but the proper framing of the question. (Chekhov had…
DOCUMENTATION SERVICES AND LIBRARY CO‐OPERATION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
A.J. WALFORDIn 1951 Barbara Kyle and I presented a joint paper on ‘Co‐operation between libraries specializing in the social sciences’ at the 1951 Library Association Conference, Edinburgh…
EVALUATION OF DOCUMENT SEARCHING SYSTEMS AND PROCEDURES
HELEN L. BROWNSONInterest in the objective testing and evaluation of document searching systems and procedures has grown steadily during the past decade. The reason for such interest is perhaps…
SOME BASIC COMMENTS ON RETRIEVAL TESTING
ROBERT A. FAIRTHORNETo test is not to evaluate. Tests reveal to what extend a retrieval system performs in some specific way; what value is or should he put upon such performance is another matter…
BARBARA KYLE AND THE CLASSIFICATION OF SOCIOLOGY
S.R. RANGANATHANBarbara Kyle is a respected member of the library profession. It is sad to know that she has resigned her place in Aslib work. She is too young and too able to be lost to library…
LANGUAGE AND CLASSIFICATION
D.J. FOSKETTOne of the least studied aspects of information retrieval is the relationship, on the linguistic plane, between the language of enquirers and the terms used by indexing systems…
USING CLASSIFICATION IN TEACHING INDEXING
J. MILLSThe status of cataloguing and classification, Siamese twins if ever there were such, has undergone some sharp ups and downs in Britain and America in the past generation. Until…
PROBLEMS IN ANALYSIS AND TERMINOLOGY FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
J. FARRADANE, R.K. POULTON, MRS S. DATTAFor the storage of information for subsequent retrieval of desired items, two stages of analysis are essential. The first is the determination of the subject content of a given…
SOME ASPECTS OF DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUING IN INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
MAGDA WHITROWThe first volume of the Isis cumulative bibliography, based on the critical bibliographies published annually in Isis, will be a kind of biobibliography. It will contain all…
DOCUMENTATION SURVEY
This survey is not comprehensive. It is highly selective and intended to keep the reader informed of significant new ideas and developments. All unsigned abstracts are prepared by…
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