Aslib Proceedings: Volume 20 Issue 11
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41st ASLIB ANNUAL CONFERENCE, CANTERBURY 1968: PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
REGINALD VERDON‐SMITHI should like to talk for a short while about one or two features of the industrial background against which the hopes and aspirations of specialist activities such as yours, or…
ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS OF INFORMATION FLOW IN TECHNOLOGY
T.J. ALLENFor about five years now a small group of us at MIT have been conducting a series of investigations into the information needs of technologists, the manner in which these needs…
CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING TECHNICAL LIBRARY EFFECTIVENESS
C.J. WESSELIn July 1966 John I. Thompson & Company accepted a contract with the Picatinny Arsenal, US Department of the Army, to perform a study aimed at developing ‘Criteria for evaluating…
The DEVELOPMENT OF SDI SERVICES
HARRY EASTTen years have elapsed since the publication of Luhn's conceptual paper ‘A business intelligence system’ in which he visualized the employment of e.d.p. equipment for a ‘service…
EXPERIENCES AND PROBLEMS OF ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING ENCOUNTERED BY The UNIVERSITY OF BOCHUM LIBRARY
G. PFLUGAfter five years' experience with electronic data processing at the University of Bochum Library it is now possible to derive some conclusions as to its practicability. The…
PROGRESS WITH DATA CENTRES
R.E. FAIRBAIRNCritical reference data may be defined as the critically evaluated measurements of basic properties of definable systems. Such data are selected after rejection of inaccurate or…
PROBLEMS OF REMOTE PROCESSING OF MAGNETIC TAPE INFORMATION FILES
A.K. KENTThe effective use of machine‐readable information files depends on many factors. Not the least of these is what, for want of a better term, might be described as the ‘physical…