Aslib Proceedings: Volume 30 Issue 2

Institutions and Learned Societies as information sources

R.J. Millson

Communication is the basis of the development of civilization, and advances in communication techniques are both a cause and an effect of developments in science and technology…

The Research Associations—their contribution to the nation's information store

A.B. Davey, J. MacLachlan

In recent years the British Research Associations have come of age commercially. There are a number of reasons for this including changes in Government grant policies, but, by way…

Industrial information resources

J.B. Wilkinson

Previous papers have discussed ‘public‐funded’ information resources. We should remind ourselves that public funds come from the economic resource of the country—and that comes…

Toward a national program for library and information services: progress and problems

Alphonse F. Trezza

Interest and support for a National Commission on Libraries developed in the early 1960s. The idea was supported by such diverse and important groups as the American Library…

The Canadian mosaic—planning for shared partnership in a national network

Gordon H. Wright

Originally, I assumed my role at this meeting was to provide an observation on the Ontario library network. When I was asked to broaden this perspective to the Canadian scene, I…