Aslib Proceedings: Volume 25 Issue 8

Countryside Information: a Literature Review

R.J. Ardern

This promises to be a most interesting meeting on Information and the Environment. We are all vitally concerned. Most of us live, if not in conurbations, at least in towns and…

Information for Environmental Planning

Brenda White

I traditionally begin a paper with one or more definitions. This is not pedantic but a matter of necessity if one is to communicate efficiently, particularly nowadays when loose…

Sources of Information on Environmental Pollution

Nigel Harvey

Environmental pollution is defined, essentially, as the discharge by human action into the environment of something undesirable, for example, a gas, a chemical, oil, a noise. So…

The Scope for Operational Research in the Library and Information Field

Martin Elton, Brian Vickery

Operational research was born during the 1939–45 war as an aid to military decision making. After the war it was rapidly applied to industrial production, and many new techniques…

Report Literature in the UK

Aslib Information Department

The major report collections in the UK are those of the British Library and the Technology Reports Centre of the Department of Trade and Industry. The British Library's loan…