Aslib Proceedings: Volume 3 Issue 2
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UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BUILDINGS: UNIVERSITY LIBRARY PLANNING
WILFRID BONSERThe paper by Miss Exley on ‘Replanning Libraries’, given at our Annual Conference this year, was intended to be on the theoretical side of the subject, while this symposium is…
PLANNING A LIBRARY PLANT
J.B. REEDA former chief of mine used to say that a paper should never deal with more than three major points and, better still, with only two. I intend to improve on this admirable advice…
A NEW LIBRARY TO SERVE MEDICAL RESEARCH
MARY HARVEYAs Mr. Ayrton will describe to you in a few minutes the architectural details of the New Library of the Medical Research Council at Mill Hill, I should like merely to point out…
THE MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LIBRARY AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, MILL HILL
MAXWELL AYRTONThe plans for new premises for the National Institute for Medical Research were commenced in July, 1937, and building operations began in 1938. The carcass was completed in 1942…
ESTIMATING THE VALUE OF INFORMATION SERVICES
JAMES B. PEARSThe object of putting forward this paper, entitled ‘Estimating the Value of Information Services’, is to start something—to awake an interest.
COSTING INFORMATION SERVICES
C.W. HANSONIn the absence of published data which would make possible an examination of the costs and value of a large group of information services, attention is concentrated in this paper…
INFORMAL REPORT ON UNESCO CONFERENCE ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SERVICES
F.C. FRANCISThe meeting was opened by the Chairman, Miss E. M. R. Ditmas, who reminded those present that the Unesco/Library of Congress Bibliographical Survey had been in progress for some…
LAW LIBRARIES IN THE U.S.A.
K. HOWARD DRAKEI had the good fortune to go to the United States for two and half months from August to October, 1950. My journey and stay there were made possible by the award of a Visiting…
HOW TO CHOOSE A CLASSIFICATION FOR YOUR SPECIAL LIBRARY
A.J. WELLSI gather that this paper was given its somewhat pretentious title in an endeavour to emphasize the practical approach which it was hoped I should bring to this subject this…
THE RESOURCES OF THE LEEDS PUBLIC LIBRARIES FOR THE STUDY OF COMMERCE, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
E. HARGREAVESThere may be some surprise occasioned by the fact that a reference librarian, whose primary interests are not either technical or commercial, should be speaking to a body of…
THE FACILITIES OF THE LEEDS UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES FOR THE STUDY OF TECHNOLOGY
B.S. PAGEThe facilities of a library are, I presume, the collections themselves and the services offered by the library administration in the use of those collections by readers. The most…
THE WORK OF ASLIB
The disturbed national and international atmosphere during 1950 has not been without its effects on the affairs of the Association. Printing disputes have frequently delayed the…