Aslib Proceedings: Volume 24 Issue 6
Table of contents
ASLIB INFORMATION
The planners of Aslib's 46th. Annual Conference—to be held from 24th to 27th September in Ranmoor House, University of Sheffield—have chosen to be strictly practical this year…
BRIEF REVIEWS
This has been revised and expanded since the first edition in 1964, although with the development of metrication it was thought best to omit the conversion tables which appeared…
Value for money in Government library/information services
C.D. OvertonThere is a section entitled ‘Too much vs Too Little’ in Robert Townsend's book Up the Organisation (London: Michael Joseph, 1970) which has a direct bearing on the subject of this…
Research by Aslib into costing of information services
B.C. VickeryThe interest of the Aslib Research and Development Department in economic aspects of information service reaches back to the early days of the Department, under the leadership of…
Financing a library/information service by operating a cost recovery system
J. CookRecent events resulting from mergers, takeovers, etc. in industry have clearly indicated that libraries and information units cannot continue to exist by divine right but must…
Teaching costing techniques to librarians and information scientists of the future
R. SturtI little thought, when our mutual friend, Leslie Patrick, led me last June towards the giving of this paper on costing techniques, that my standpoint would have changed to the…
Use, efficiency and cost of external information services
A. KabiIn this paper I will deal separately with the three main headings of use, efficiency and cost, and where possible compare them with ‘in‐house’ information retrieval services. It…