Aslib Proceedings: Volume 24 Issue 8
Table of contents
ASLIB INFORMATION
The next in the series of evening meetings arranged by the Aslib Research and Development Department, to be held at Aslib on Tuesday, 12th September 1972, is entitled ‘Data and…
BRIEF REVIEWS
This short, but highly informative and authoritative, guide provides the minimum of explanation and description which every librarian and documentalist needs to know. It is in…
The British Library and the Social Sciences: ASLIB SOCIAL SCIENCES GROUP CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF BATH, MARCH 1972
During the next few months the British Library will come into being, integrating the nation's central reference, lending and bibliographic services. While the sciences and…
The British Museum Library and the social sciences: Reference services
G.H. SpinneyAs there is a great deal of ground to be covered in the present Session, I have only about half‐an‐hour in which to tell you what kind of services the British Museum Library is…
The British Library of Political and Economic Science: Reference services
D.A. ClarkeBLPES was founded by the Webbs in 1896 to be, in the words of the initial appeal for funds, ‘a new laboratory of social research’. Though entirely dependent for finance on LSE…
Other national resources in the social sciences
K.W. Humphreys‘If no‐one questions me’, said St. Augustine in his Confessions, ‘I know, but if I am required to explain my point of view I do not know.’ I understand exactly what he means. When…
Retrospective bibliographical services in the social sciences
R.A. ChristophersA retrospective bibliographical service is defined as one compiled for permanent retention and for a general use. Because of its reference and retention functions a library such…
Desiderata for national bibliographical services
N. RobertsWhatever we desire for our future, national bibliographical services in the social sciences must, in some form, represent a reaction to, or from, our present bibliographical…
The British Library and the social sciences
The conference considered national library provision in the social sciences, both the present situation and future prospects and possibilities. Present services, as offered by the…