Aslib Proceedings: Volume 11 Issue 12

TECHNICAL INFORMATION In INDUSTRY: HOW It Is HANDLED

I.M. SLADE

Howis technical information handled in industry? Very badly on the whole. Why is this so? Why doesn't industry get a better service? One of the reasons is that most companies have…

TECHNICAL INFORMATION In INDUSTRY: HOW It Is USED

CHRISTOPHER SCOTT

This paper reports a selection of results from a sample survey on the use of technical information in the British electrical and electronics industry, commissioned by the dsir and…

FARMINGTON REDIVIVUS: OR TEN YEARS OF CO‐ORDINATED FOREIGN BOOK PROCUREMENT In The U.S.

ROBERT VOSPER

It is assumed in many circles that American university libraries are tremendously rich in books and also in dollars. There are to be sure at least twenty today with holdings of…

JAPANESE SOURCES OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION

K.B. GARDNER

Japan, like Great Britain, is an island nation, small in area but thickly populated and highly industrialized. Its existence depends on a flourishing export trade, and there is…