Aslib Proceedings: Volume 34 Issue 9

New technology and marketing—the challenge for librarians

Blaise Cronin

Though I have had little contact with the medical library profession, I do know that your group (Medical, Health and Welfare Libraries) is highly active and highly thought of…

Language and information retrieval in the social sciences

Ralph Adam

‘Plain English’, ‘simple language’ and ‘good style’ are frequently taken for granted. Yet, easily as such epithets may come to us, they, nevertheless, conceal issues concerning…

NRCd, word processors and the information industry

Derek Painter

The National Reprographic Centre for documentation was formed in 1967 to examine the value of microform systems to members of the library community. In the summer of 1979 the…

Reflections on word processing: the experience of a small medical library

N. Whitsed

The Philips word processor has been chosen by the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School Library because of its ability to perform tasks, particularly the catalogue cards, and its…