Aslib Proceedings: Volume 6 Issue 4
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FURTHER PROBLEMS IN COMMUNICATION: The LANGUAGE OF The SOCIAL SCIENCES
BARBARA WOOTTONI must begin this address with an apology for the uncommunicative nature of the title of my paper as announced in your programmes. As often happens, the title had to be chosen in…
The SCIENTIST AS INFORMATION OFFICER: I. The VIEW OF The SCIENTIST
E.B. UVAROVThe author of a paper entitled ‘The Scientist as Information Officer’ might reasonably be expected to define the terms ‘scientist’ and ‘information officer’. The tentative working…
II. WHAT The EMPLOYER NEEDS FROM The INFORMATION OFFICER
R.M. LODGEThis extract from a recent Lancet was, suitably enough, provided for me by my own Company's Information Officer. He is not, in consequence a paragon; he is just doing his job. We…
EQUIPMENT OF CURRENT INTEREST TO INFORMATION WORKERS
L.J. ANTHONYAfter a short introduction, the speaker referred to equipment in the exhibition.
ASLIB'S DEVELOPMENT
LESLIE WILSONReported The Director said that three main periods could be distinguished in Aslib's development so far. The first, lasting from its foundation in 1924 to about 1940, had been the…
The THEORY OF COMMUNICATION
R.A. FAIRTHORNESome thirty years ago, when the laboratory where I worked needed light alloy castings, success depended on divination carried out by the foreman. This hinged upon the effects of…
The FUNCTION OF The LIBRARY IN The PREPARATION, PRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION OF TECHNICAL REPORTS
ROBERT C. SALEAt the first glance the title of this paper appears entirely simple and straightforward. The author learned the hard way that nothing could be farther from the truth. The subject…
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GUIDES FOR TECHNICAL AUTHORS
B.C. BROOKESThis bibliography is not comprehensive; it is restricted to books which are both readily available at the present time, and which, in the experience of the compiler, have been…
SELECT LIST OF STANDARDS AND OTHER AIDS FOR EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS OF TECHNICAL LITERATURE
G.A. LLOYDThe purpose of this list is to indicate some of the tools which may help those concerned in editing and publishing scientific and technical papers to present their material in the…