Aslib Proceedings: Volume 23 Issue 7

WORDS AND DOCUMENTS: The Fifth Aslib Annual Lecture

HERBERT COBLANS

Those of us who look back on a lifetime of work in librarianship, documentation and education—what is nowadays called communication—are often tempted to try to define our terms…

POLICY ISSUES AND The DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS

P.J. JUDGE

Forgive my starting with so inelegant a quotation, used earlier this year at a meeting of computer professionals by a speaker who was criticizing the ‘incestuous’ nature of the…

COST ANALYSIS OF A TECHNICAL INFORMATION UNIT

KJELD KLINTØE

A cost analysis programme is defined here as a project aimed at quantifying the balance of a working system by measuring the input in terms of resources allocated to the various…

SURVEYS OF RECORDS IN The BRITISH ISLES

DAVID ALLEN

In the last year or two the number of ad hoc record‐listing projects in this country has increased quite dramatically. After a long period during which any such initiatives were…