Aslib Proceedings: Volume 6 Issue 2
Table of contents
INTRODUCTION
A glance at the Aslib Calendar printed in the monthly bulletin, Aslib Information, will show that there has been great activity in the months since the Aslib Annual Conference in…
WHAT IS NEEDED AND WHY
MARTIN MADDANI think that my part in the proceedings to‐night is certainly the easier part and I think that it is perhaps right that it should be the briefer part. I have to set, as your…
INSURANCE OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES
JOHN M. HIRONMr Hiron first explained the theory of insurance as the transference of the loss of the individual to the pockets of the many by means of the operation of a common fund or pool…
The WORK OF The T.I.D.U.
E.G. HILLI am very glad of this opportunity of telling you something about the work of the Technical Information and Documents Unit, because I am sure that this organization has something…
SOURCES OF RUSSIAN SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
A.L. MACKAYInstead of enumerating the various scientific journals of the Soviet Union, this paper will discuss the special circumstances of present‐day Russian scientific publication, since…
INDUSTRY, INFORMATION AND RESEARCH
VERNON D. FREEDLANDIn the course of my daily round as an information officer engaged in sifting out material from the stream of printed matter flowing across my desk, I recently examined the newly…
MEMBER'S FORUM TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANS AND DOCUMENTALISTS
The F.I.D. Council at its meeting in Vienna in June, 1953, considered a resolution adopted by the International Library Committee in September, 1951, and a comment on it made by…
SIGNPOSTS: SOME SELECTIONS FROM The 1953 SPECIAL LIBRARY LITERATURE
J. BIRDThe aims of this annual review of the literature were set out at some length in the first article in the series (Aslib Proceedings, vol. 5, no. 1, February 1953, pp. 27–39), but…
The NATIONAL CENTRAL LIBRARY: 1st MARCH, 1952, TO 28TH FEBRUARY, 1953
F.M. GOLDSPINKThe Annual Report for the year 1952/53 noted a milestone in the history of the National Central Library. On 20th June the reconstruction of the Library, which had been largely…