Aslib Proceedings: Volume 30 Issue 12

Medical school libraries in the United Kingdom: some statistics for 1977

Gerald Saunders

A postal questionnaire was sent to the librarians of thirty‐two medical schools in the United Kingdom. From this, information on twenty‐four (75 per cent) of their libraries was…

Aslib open meeting: Euronet and you

F.V. Mahon

I would like to start with a definition: Euronet is a conglomerate term designed to describe a concept—the sharing of information resources in the member states of the European…

An introduction to mechanized information retrieval

A.J. Harley

In giving any introduction to information retrieval it is necessary to begin by explaining what it is and why, then to examine some of its central features, and then to try to…

The presentation of library accounts

P.G. Peacock

In his paper ‘Accounting information in universities’ Sims draws attention to the inadequacy of university financial information systems. He argues that the way in which…