Aslib Proceedings: Volume 5 Issue 2
Table of contents
INTRODUCTION
E.M.R. DITMASIn this issue of Aslib Proceedings we are glad to be able to include papers from two of the series of winter meetings held in London by Aslib, papers given at the Annual General…
PERIODICAL SETS: WHAT SHOULD YOU BUY?
B.C. VICKERYWhen I consider the World list of scientific periodicals, or the array of slips which we hope will one day be published as the British union catalogue of periodicals, and then…
THE ROLE OF THE BRITISH NATIONAL BOOK CENTRE
A. ALLARDYCEThe two situations which make the work of the British National Book Centre necessary are only too well known to most of you, and have been described in their setting by Mr…
PERIODICAL ACQUISITION POLICIES
KENNETH B. SHAWShortly after I agreed to take part in this symposium, I realized that I knew very little about the acquisition of second‐hand periodicals, my experience being limited almost…
COPYRIGHT MOOT: A HYPOTHETICAL CASE OF INFRINGEMENT OF THE LAW: London, 20th February, 1953
The narrative below has been written to illustrate various difficulties which may arise, in regard to copyright, in the work of Aslib members. The events described are all…
FACTS CONCERNING PATENTS, OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO INDUSTRIAL LIBRARIANS AND INFORMATION OFFICERS
GEO.H. DAVISONTo keep this paper within measurable compass, I propose not to discuss the history of British Patent Law except to point out that the 1624 Statute of King James, which covered the…
THE WRITING OF ENGLISH IN ABSTRACTS AND REPORTS
ERIC N. SIMONSEvery man has his King Charles's head, and the writing of English is mine. Some people imagine that you cannot write, or write about, good English unless you have a long list of…
THE USE OF CONTINUOUS‐FORM STATIONERY FOR LIBRARY LOAN RECORDS
MARGARET D. GAUNTLETTFor the past five years loans from the Kodak Research Library have been recorded on continuous‐form stationery, the use of which has become an accepted part of the library…
A SCHEME FOR CIRCULATING PERIODICALS
E.H. MURCH, C.E.C. HEWETSONThe scheme about to be described handles the circulation of 200–300 periodical titles to 100 readers, most of whom are housed in one building.
A SYSTEMATIC ‘LINE FORMULA’ CHEMICAL NOTATION
WILLIAM J. WISWESSERTechnical librarians scarcely need to be reminded of the growing crisis in the field of chemical literature—the problem of efficiently retrieving facts about chemicals from the…