Aslib Proceedings: Volume 37 Issue 5

In defence of bibliographic standards

Rodney M. Brunt

The last few years have seen considerable advances in the field of computerised bibliographic control. In addition to the mainframe‐based systems such as MARC, there has been…

Providing library support for a community‐based mental handicap project: some experiences from a recent setting‐up exercise

M.G. Lewis

The author has been involved in setting up a library situated in a Community Mental Handicap Team room within a hospital. The library will shortly form the basis for a…

Factual databases

John Martyn

As seems always to be the case in the information field, the terminology relating to databases is loose and imprecise. Twenty years ago we used to talk about abstracting and…

Promotion of industrial innovation by public sector agencies: information methodology

Peter Smith

This paper presents experiences gathered by the author during a twelve‐month period in an enterprise agency, Tyne & Wear Enterprise Trust Ltd, providing a service to small and…