Aslib Proceedings: Volume 2 Issue 1
Table of contents
STANDARDIZATION IN DOCUMENTATION: London Meeting, 27th October, 1948
The first meeting of the 1948/49 session of Aslib winter meetings was devoted to a discussion of various aspects of standardization in documentation. Mr. F. C. Francis, of the…
1. THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC SYSTEM OF CLASSIFICATION (abridged)
L.A. BURGESSI have approached my task of addressing you to‐day with more than conventional diffidence. As an association of specialist librarians, you bring to the consideration of my paper a…
2. THE COLON CLASSIFICATION
A.J. WELLSThe Colon Classification of Dr. Ranganathan differs in several fundamental ways from other schemes of classification and challenges a number of accepted ideas about the nature of…
INFORMATION FROM THE ADVERTISEMENT PAGES
GEOFFREY A. SHIRESAnything up to 80 per cent of a technical journal to‐day consists of advertisements. The advertising pages are often cunningly woven among the others to increase their chance of…
REARRANGING AND RECATALOGUING A REFERENCE LIBRARY OF BOOKS
J.E. WRIGHTHistorical When in 1910 The Institution of Electrical Engineers moved to the present premises in Savoy Place the magnificent room set aside for the library seemed more than…
SYMPOSIUM ON MICROPHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE USER'S POINT OF VIEW: London Meeting, 16th February, 1949
E.M.R. DITMASIn the absence of Miss Ditmas the chair was taken by Mr. J. E. Wright. Formal papers were not read/but three speakers contributed their observations on microfilm apparatus now…
1. SERVICE TO MEDICAL LIBRARIES
GEOFFREY R. EDWARDSMr Edwards pointed out the vast differences of services between special and other libraries and the difficulties of co‐operation. Even between special libraries working in the…
2. THE INTERCHANGE OF TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS IN SHEFFIELD
J.P. LAMBThe idea which ultimately found expression in the creation of the Organization for the Interchange of Technical Publications in Sheffield was first suggested in a paper which I…