Aslib Proceedings: Volume 33 Issue 3

A National Information Policy for the United Kingdom

L.J. Anthony

Every year, Aslib, in common with other library and information organizations, plays host to a large number of overseas visitors, many of them from developing countries. They come…

Information users' changing expectations and needs

Paul Moores

Every organization both within and outside industry in the public and private sectors exists because it provides a service or product that is either needed or wanted.

UDC in the UK: a report on the 1979/1980 survey

Richard Hindson

I think that it would be sensible for me to begin this presentation with a declaration of my interest in the Universal Decimal Classification. I first became acquainted with the…

A system for machine‐aided thesaurus construction

S.G. Dextre, T.M. Clarke

The BSI ROOT Thesaurus has been developed first of all as a comprehensive indexing and searching tool for technological applications and secondly as a labour‐saving device in the…

Activities of the Commission of the European Communities

The Commission of the European Communities is one of the four components of the institutional framework set up to initiate and implement policy relating to the three European…