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GEOFFREY WOLEDGE: An Appreciation
LESLIE WILSONThirty‐seven years as a member of the Editorial Board of a learned journal is a remarkable record in any circumstances. To have served in that capacity in a field which has…
SCONUL: THE CONTRIBUTION OF GEOFFREY WOLEDGE
T.H. BOWYERIn the post‐war years 1945–50, university and other large research libraries were confronted both by new problems and new opportunities. First, university libraries had to provide…
THE MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION AND LIBRARY PROVISION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
STEPHEN A. ROBERTSThe broader context in the last twenty years awareness of the information and documentation problems of the social sciences has grown, but almost as if by stealth. During that…
TOWARDS INFORMETRICS: HAITUN, LAPLACE, ZIPF, BRADFORD AND THE ALVEY PROGRAMME
B.C. BROOKESHaitun has recently shown that empirical distributions are of two types—‘Gaussian’ and ‘Zipfian’—characterized by the presence or absence of moments. Gaussian‐type distributions…
THE LIBRARIAN AS CUSTODIAN; OR, A POLICEMAN'S LOT … ?
B.C. BLOOMFIELDIt is a great pleasure and a signal distinction to be invited to contribute to this issue in honour of Geoffrey Woledge, formerly Librarian of the British Library of Political and…
‘A NEW LABORATORY OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH’: THE BRITISH LIBRARY OF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SCIENCE
D.A. CLARKEThe British Library of Political and Economic Science, of which Geoffrey Woledge was Librarian from 1944 to 1966, and which was the major interest and achievement of his…
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