Aslib Proceedings: Volume 2 Issue 3
Table of contents
I. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES OF A PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTION
W.G. WATTSThe Library and Information department which I represent is a joint one of two professional Institutions, the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, and the Institution of Mining…
2. PUBLICITY IN THE KODAK RESEARCH LIBRARY
B. CHIBNALLThe Kodak Research Library is intended to serve the staff of the Research Laboratories in which it is established. This staff numbers about 70 to 80 graduates and about 100 or…
3. THE BEST USE OF LIBRARY STATISTICS
C.W. HANSONAS officer in charge of an Information Department which incorporates a special library, I value and use any statistical data which can be employed to provide a guide to policy and…
1. THE ACTIVITIES OF THE ‘KING COMMITTEE’
ALEXANDER KINGDr King stressed that his Committee dealt with the whole question of technical information from the users' point of view. The investigation had covered information services within…
2. THE WORK OF THE INFORMATION SERVICES COMMITTEE OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY
D.C. MARTINI invite you to listen to and to look upon some words of Henry‐Oldenburg, a Secretary of the Royal Society, in the first edition of the Philosophical Transactions. They were…
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SURVEY
The meeting was held in order to give Aslib members an opportunity for the discussion of the interim reports circulated by the Unesco/ Library of Congress Bibliographical Planning…
1. THE DRAFTING OF QUESTIONNAIRES
ROBERT J.E. SILVEYMR Silvey quoted the widespread assumption that the drafting of questionnaires was only a matter of common sense—was this really the case?
2. THE LIMITATIONS OF QUESTIONNAIRES
D.L. LAMBERTHBefore really getting under way may I clearly define two terms which will occur in this talk: recording schedule and questionnaire. By a schedule I mean a piece of paper…
1. THE BRITISH NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
F.C. FRANCISI greatly appreciate the privilege of being able to talk this evening to Aslib on the subject of the British National Bibliography—an enterprise in which we are extremely glad to…
2. CATALOGUING OF GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
T.C.D. EVANSFor many years the Stationery Office has produced a day‐to‐day catalogue of its publications in the form of index cards in order to provide the various Sale Offices of the…
THE WORK OF ASLIB: July 1948 to December 1949
The formation, in May, 1949, of the new Aslib, incorporating the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux and the British Society for International Bibliography…
BRITISH UNION CATALOGUE OF PERIODICALS: SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31ST MARCH, 1950
The number of slips written and locations recorded during the year, and the total up to 31st March, 1950, were approximately as follows:—