Aslib Proceedings: Volume 24 Issue 7

ASLIB INFORMATION

Results of Aslib Council elections. The following were elected to membership of the Council of Aslib at the Aslib Annual General Meeting held on 14th June 1972:

BRIEF REVIEWS

This report is a contribution to the wider National Libraries ADP Study which is due to appear later this year. In this way it can be seen as a blueprint in the planning of the…

Intermediate languages for switching and control

Alan Gilchrist

When I was asked to give this paper, I was unaware that the title of the Conference was ‘Words and Meaning’. While I warmly welcome this theme, I must admit that it gave me rather…

Some thesauric history

Karen Sparck Jones

An information retrieval thesaurus is a familiar object: it consists of a set of more or less controlled terms functioning as conceptual labels for sets of natural language entry…

Some recent approaches to the study of meaning

K.M. Petyt

Of course, an interest in meaning goes back much further in time than the period of modern linguistics. Some of the earliest recorded speculation about language concerned meaning…

Research and Aslib membership

B.C. Vichery

Aslib has had a Research and Development Department since 1959. It has received powerful financial support from the Office for Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) and from…