Aslib Proceedings: Volume 25 Issue 7

Editorial

The Conference on the British Library's Services, held on 16 November 1972, provided an opportunity for the Groups, Branches and Sections of the UK library organizations to review…

Sociology and librarianship

Gerry M. Smith

The Aslib Social Sciences Group was established in 1969 to promote the study of two distinct subject areas: (a) the bibliography and handling of the literature of the social…

Public use of business and commercial information: a pilot study at the Commercial Library, Manchester Central Library

Averil Osborn, Leslie Smyth

One of the main difficulties in operating a service for the public is that the public, though very much in evidence individually, may collectively be an unknown quantity. When the…

A bibliometric survey of primary and secondary information science literature

P. Dansey

A statistical analysis is made of the professional literature of librarians and information scientists in an attempt to uncover the patterns of information flow and to evaluate…

Translations in the UK

Aslib Information Department

Since 1966 translations into English from all languages have been collected and there is an extensive collection of pre‐1966 material, mainly from East European, Russian and…