Aslib Proceedings: Volume 16 Issue 2

ASLIB PROCEEDINGS: incorporating Aslib Information

The death has been announced, on 7th January, of Dr Richard Offor, O.B.E. Dr Offor, who was eighty‐one, was Librarian of the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds, from 1919 to…

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: A REVOLT AGAINST CONVENTIONAL SYSTEMS?

J. MILLS

Librarianship and documentation is a service industry. Its end product is the receipt by a customer of the information retrieved for him, from a store, by the librarian, whether…

RESEARCH ON USERS' NEEDS: WHERE IS IT GETTING US?

C.W. HANSON

Since Bernal made his pilot survey of the use of scientific literature for the 1948 Royal Society Scientific Information Conference, at least three dozen other investigations have…

The PRESENT STATE OF RESEARCH INTO The COMMUNICATION OF INFORMATION

B.C. VICKERY

All over the world—in research laboratories, universities, factories, plantations, hospitals—there are people wanting information. All over the world, in those same places, there…

SELECTIONS FROM The RECENT LITERATURE

All items listed may be borrowed from the Aslib Library, except those marked *, which may be consulted in the Library.