Aslib Proceedings: Volume 24 Issue 4

ASLIB INFORMATION

Aslib's sixth Annual Lecturer will be Dr B. J. Mason, FRS, who is Director General of the United Kingdom Meteorological Office and formerly Professor of Cloud Physics at Imperial…

The FID policy for the UDC

J.E. Wright

The FID has undertaken as a matter of urgency to prepare a scheme which may drastically alter the tables of the UDC. Although the full proposals have not yet been decided, the…

BRIEF REVIEWS

This work proposes to help life science libraries co‐ordinate bibliographic information produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) with that emanating from the Library of…

Librarians and the management of library systems

P.A. Thomas, Valerie A. Ward

Systems analysis is no new phenomenon, and the concept of hierarchies of systems is no novelty to a librarian. Its usefulness in classification schemes has long been appreciated…

The foreign language and translation problems of the social sciences

W.L. Saunders

By one of those coincidences that seem to abound in academic life and are probably not coincidences at all, we have recently found ourselves, quite suddenly, in possession of a…

Patents as a source of technical information

K.M. Saunderson

I must start my paper with two disclaimers. Firstly, I will not be concerned with the legal aspects of patents other than as these may arise in the context of a discussion of the…