Aslib Proceedings: Volume 10 Issue 12

RESEARCH INTO LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES

The Chairman, Mr. Leslie Wilson, Director of Aslib, said that at the 1954 Annual Conference in London he had suggested, as part of a talk about the future development of Aslib…

AIMS AND OBJECTS FOR RESEARCH INTO INFORMATION SERVICES

C.W. Hanson

For more than a decade ‘research’ has been a popular word and even a fashionable one. That does not mean to say that all researches proposed have been undertaken; cost has to be…

DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND ASLIB

C.W. CLEVERDON

Few people would deny that the purchase and move into Aslib's new headquarters was a matter of very great importance but I believe that the increased grant made to Aslib by the…

The ART OF LECTURING

G. KITSON CLARK, E. BIDDER CLARK

The Chairman, Mr. K. W. Humphreys (University of Birmingham), said that 9.15 on a Sunday morning was not the best time for listening to a lecture and the number present was a…

PATENT CLASSIFICATION

M.R. GHEURY DE BRAY

Patent classification is a very big subject and to deal with it adequately I should need a whole course of lectures instead of only one. I shall, therefore, have to dismiss much…

PATENT CLASSIFICATION FROM The POINT OF VIEW OF The PUBLIC

NICHOLAS J. FLOWER

I have the greatest admiration for those in the Patent Office and for those members of Aslib who have to concern themselves with problems of classification. The theory and…

NATIONAL CENTRAL LIBRARY

The 42nd Annual Report of the National Central Library, for the year ending 28th February 1958, records the decision to postpone from 1st January 1958 to 1st January 1959…