New Library World: Volume 91 Issue 9

Reviews

Wilfred Ashworth, Ian Pettman, Janet Bradley

Of all possible uses of computers in information handling the most controversial lie in the fields of artificial intelligence and expert systems. Incidentally, these fields are…

Features

Tony Joseph, Ian Cowburn

In 1982, according to the Bookseller, there were more than 36,000 new books published in Britain. Of these the vast majority were of course brought out by publishers whose names…

Alerts

Wilfred Ashworth

In “Alerts” for December 1989, under the title “A Multimedia Record!” I reviewed the CD‐ROM disc The Guinness Disc of Records, 1990, produced by Pergamon Compact Solutions. At…

Columns

Verena Thompson, Edwin Fleming, Allan Bunch

The African Caribbean Library Association's (ACLA) current Chair is Gloria Lock of Wandsworth Libraries. I interviewed her recently about the Association — the results of which…