Aslib Proceedings: Volume 34 Issue 5
Table of contents
Authors versus books
Anthony SmithThe system of moving letters devised by Johan Gutenberg established, or rather, confirmed a chain of specialist relationships which runs: author, printer, bookseller/publisher…
Performance measurement and information management
Blaise CroninEvaluation is a term which crops up with increasing regularity in the professional literature of our field. The term is easy to understand, but it does have a wide variety of…
Managing multisite polytechnic library services
Neil McLeanIt has been widely assumed for the past ten years that multisite libraries, a feature of polytechnic institutions in the U.K., are expensive to operate, difficult to administer…
Library‐information service evaluation: a case‐history from pharmaceutical R and D
A. Rennie McElroyThis paper describes a 19‐week project which sought to examine and evaluate the library‐information service at Syntex Research Centre, Riccarton, Edinburgh, a pharmaceutical R and…
Gateway—an enhancement of Prestel
Chris HomeThe introduction of the Gateway facility in March 1982 as an enhancement of the Prestel viewdata service has considerable effect on its basic character. The facility enables…