Aslib Proceedings: Volume 22 Issue 11

REVIEW OF The ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH: 1. Tradition, Innovation and Research in the Library

PHILIP M. WHITEMAN

The history of research in library science is not the easiest of subjects to speak on with any hope of presenting significant interpretations and conclusions, because as a topic…

REVIEW OF The ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH: 2. Information and its Retrieval

CYRIL W. CLEVERDON

My task in this second introductory paper is to attempt a review of the research that has been undertaken in relation to the retrieval of information. It is some twenty years ago…

INNOVATION RESULTING FROM RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN The INFORMATION FIELD: 1. A Researcher's View: The Detection of Innovation

R.A. FAIRTHORNE

Research can mean many things, even after we rule out its use as a label to raise the rank of institutional pecking order or the thinking of beautiful, but unverifiable, thoughts…

INNOVATION RESULTING FROM RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN The INFORMATION FIELD: 2. The User's View

M.B. LINE

I am not sure whether I was asked to give this paper as an innovator, a researcher and developer, or a user. If I claim to have some elements of all three, this presumably…