Aslib Proceedings: Volume 42 Issue 2

Bibliographic records for users: from disordered superabundance to cost‐effective satisfaction

Maurice B. Line

At present bibliographic records are being produced for many of the same books by publishers, commercial companies and libraries, in spite of the cost of producing them, and their…

Library suppliers as a source of bibliographic information

John P. Bunce

Firstly let's briefly look at what a Library Supplier does. Library Suppliers serve libraries—the major services provided are:

Users' requirements of bibliographic records: publishers, booksellers, librarians

Lorcan Dempsey

The exchange of bibliographic records throughout the whole of the book world has raised new questions for the booktrade and librarians alike. This brief paper examines some of the…

Publishers' bibliographic databases—justification, history and impact

John Allison

A brief examination of the internal reasons for setting up publishers' bibliographic databases, followed by a fuller examination of the external reasons including: —Making…

Economics of record provision

David Preston

The original initiative for looking at this area came from the BNB Research Fund which sponsored a paper on this topic for their 1987 seminar at Newbury. Initially, the intention…