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HERBERT COBLANS: A Biography
EDWARD CARTERHerbert Coblans to whose memory this number of the Journal of Documentation is dedicated served for thirteen years as its editor and as a world‐wide spokesman of Aslib's cause. In…
CONCEPTS OF DOCUMENTATION
B.C. VICKERYDocumentation is a practice concerned with all the processes involved in transferring documents from sources to users. The volume and variety of documents are immense, and…
CLASSIFICATION IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: THE TWENTY YEARS FOLLOWING DORKING
E.J. COATESMy contact with Herbert Coblans was limited, alas, to our shared concerns in the field of subject indication. He first sought me out in the early 1960s, ostensibly to find out…
INTERNATIONAL CO‐OPERATION IN INFORMATION TRANSFER
A. WYSOCKIInformation transfer, which means the collection, storage, processing and dissemination of information is now a major resource of strategic national and international importance…
THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONALLY MANAGED INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND THEIR PROSPECTS
H. EASTThis paperreviews a selection of international collaborative efforts in the production of information services and attempts to characterize modes of co‐operation. It is argued…
DOCUMENTATION AND THE SCIENTIFIC PRODUCER/USER
A.J. MEADOWSOne of Dr Coblans' most widely read papers was certainly his reassessment of J. D. Bernal's ideas on the communication of scientific information, as originally outlined in The…
DEVELOPMENT OF MECHANIZED DOCUMENTATION
S. KEENANIn 1964 Herbert Coblans wrote that the development of photo‐effect lithography, the invention and evolution of photographic techniques, had profoundly affected the ‘recording of…
SOME TRENDS IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN DOCUMENTATION
ALAN MACGREGORIn this inevitably personal view, where I have taken documentation to embrace libraries and information centres, services and systems, I propose to stress Research rather than…
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