Aslib Proceedings: Volume 7 Issue 3
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INTRODUCTION
E.M.R. DITMASSince the earliest days of Aslib the Universal Decimal Classification has provided topics for meetings. In the 1920's and 1930's the U.D.C. was a focal point of bibliographical…
RECENT U.D.C. DEVELOPMENTS: A DISCUSSION MEETING London, 18th March, 1955
This was designed as a discussion meeting, and not a lecture. The main intention of the introductory remarks was to survey recent revision work on the Universal Decimal…
The UNITED STATES INFORMATION SERVICE
Rolf JacobyThe U.S. Information Service is an agency of the Foreign Service of the U.S. Government maintaining information centres in many parts of the world. An information centre usually…
The MANCHESTER COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY LIBRARY AND ITS ASSISTANCE TO INDUSTRY
L.L. ARDERNIn Manchester, in June, 1824, one Hugh Pritchard publicly sold his wife, aged 26, for 3s. Earlier in the year there had been labour riots because the employers insisted on…
SPECIAL LIBRARIES OF The MANCHESTER AREA
VERNON D. FREEDLANDIn a previous paper I pointed out how much richer was the Manchester area in research and industrial libraries than was another important region in the North. It is appropriate on…
SOME ASPECTS OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
CYRIL CLEVERDONSince its formation in 1950 the Aslib Aeronautical Group has been concerned with various aspects of classification, particularly with regard to the retrieval of information from…
SUBJECT ANALYSIS IN EIGHTY‐ONE CONCEPTS
E.G. BRISCHAt the Royal Society's Scientific Information Conference in 1948 I presented a method of multilateral classification based on an analysis of compound concepts into their…
MEMBERS' FORUM AN INTRODUCTION TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE ABSTRACTS AND The REPORT LITERATURE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY
J. ROLAND SMITHIn a lecture before the National Industrial Conference Board, New York, on 29th October, 1953, Sir Christopher Hinton—then Deputy Controller of Atomic Energy (Production), now…
The WORK OF ASLIB
Report of the Council for the year ended 31st December, 1954, presented at the Annual General Meeting, 10th June, 1955.