Aslib Proceedings: Volume 8 Issue 3
Table of contents
INTRODUCTION
E.M.R. DITMASThe last of the London meetings for the winter session 1955–6 was held on 13th April, 1956, when Mr. C. N. Kington, Group Manager, British Iron and Steel Research Association, and…
RESEARCH FOR SMALL FIRMS
C.N. KINGTONI should like to set the scene by giving you an outline of that part of B.I.S.R.A. (British Iron and Steel Research Association) organization with which I am connected, as this…
I REVIEW OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN PRESS
E. BREWINThe Review of British and Foreign Press, which is more conveniently referred to in the steel industry as the Press Review, originated in 1934, when it was produced by the…
II INFORMATION BULLETINS, THEIR CONTENTS AND FUNCTION
Barbara M. BrownThe Information Service at Fisons Head Office is operated primarily to meet the needs of the fertilizer and heavy chemical part of the group, which is now known as Division 1. In…
III INFORMATION BULLETINS IN I.C.I.
F.P. STEVENSA series of information bulletins are circulated within the company, one being prepared at the Headquarters in London and the remainder by the manufacturing divisions at their…
IV COURTAULDS, LIMITED: NEWS SUMMARY
E.E. STOWELLThe Summary is produced weekly; editing starts on Monday and finishes with information collected on Tuesday morning. It is circulated to directors, managers, production, sales…
INFORMATION WITHIN The MILL
A.W. BAYESThe madman Huhu in Peer Gynt suffered melancholia because ‘droves of people die misunderstood’, and his plan was to lift the restraints of speech altogether by reintroducing the…
STATISTICAL AND ECONOMIC INFORMATION ON TEXTILES
R. ROBSONThe origins of statistical information relating to the textile industry as to statistics generally are to be found mainly in the needs of Governments which, especially in the…
TEXTILE INFORMATION: HOW AND WHERE TO FIND IT
VERNON D. FREEDLANDAlthough textiles is one of the oldest crafts and goes back to prehistory—it is believed that weaving grew up in the neolithic or later stone age—our modern civilization is…
MAKING AN EXHIBITION OF ONESELF
L.T. OLDAKERI should first like to say a few words about the title I have given to this paper. The title was chosen quite deliberately because I felt that it epitomized both the subject…
The NORTHERN BRANCH: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT
R. BRIGHTMANWe are met this afternoon to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the inauguration of the Northern Branch of Aslib, but our retrospect should go back further than 8th May, 1946. As…
MEMBERS' FORUM The FUTURE OF DOCUMENTATION IN APPLIED CHEMISTRY: The ROLE OF INDUSTRY
J.D. ROSE, R.E. FAIRBAIRNThe chemical industry has developed and used documentation services perhaps to a greater degree than any other industry. This has arisen because of the necessity for a progressive…