Aslib Proceedings: Volume 8 Issue 1
Table of contents
INTRODUCTION
E.M.R. DITMASOn 7th September, 1955, a lecture was organized jointly by Aslib with the Aslib Aeronautical Group and was held in London at the Royal Society of Arts. The lecturer was Mr. Calvin…
ZATOCODING AND DEVELOPMENTS IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
CALVIN N. MOOERSIt is a pleasure, as a visitor to your country, to find myself invited to talk to this audience about information retrieval. The invitation, as it came to me, contained the…
The FUTURE PUBLIC TECHNOLOGICAL LIBRARY SERVICES: SHOULD A NEW PUBLIC TECHNICAL LIBRARY SERVICE BE BASED ON The TECHNICAL COLLEGES?
D.J. URQUHARTThe topic I wish to present is not a simple one and the position is confused by discordant voices each advocating different solutions to quite different problems. I will present…
The CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE AND ITS PLANS
E.J. CRANEChemical Abstracts, about to enter its fiftieth year, is at a turning point. Heretofore this journal has been produced without the expectation that subscription income would…
The RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF READERS AND LIBRARIANS
BARBARA KYLEOn the assumption that the majority of this audience works in technical and industrial libraries or information departments, of which I have no first‐hand knowledge, I have…
The ROLE OF PROFESSIONAL PERIODICALS IN EDUCATION FOR LIBRARY AND INFORMATION WORK
J. BIRDWhen I came to prepare this paper, and considered carefully the subject I had chosen, it became apparent that there were two possible levels on which it could be treated. The…
The NATIONAL CENTRAL LIBRARY 1st MARCH, 1954, to 28th FEBRUARY, 1955
C.V. CUTLERIn its Annual Report for the year ending 1954–55 the Executive Committee of the National Central Library have been able to record a year of real progress by the Library in each of…