Fax: testing the uses of facsimile transmission at Aberdeen City libraries

Abstract

Aberdeen's geographical isolation from other centres of commerce and industry in the United Kingdom encourages librarians in the city to examine all possible methods of communication, especially those systems which promise to deliver documents quickly. Getting information quickly has always been important to libraries which provide information to industry, and today's world of rapid technological change provides a further sense of urgency for those of us who serve areas such as the oil and gas industry, where tomorrow's information is always wanted yesterday! Our distance from other libraries such as the Mitchell Library in Glasgow and the Institute of Offshore Engineering in Edinburgh means that we cannot refer our readers to these centres but have to satisfy their enquiries ourselves. Close co‐operative links with other local libraries are important but don't diminish the need for quick and easy access to the provincial patent library in Glasgow, the Science Reference Library in London or other national libraries such as the BLLD (British Library Lending Division) in Boston Spa.

Citation

Smith‐Burnett, L. (1985), "Fax: testing the uses of facsimile transmission at Aberdeen City libraries", Program: electronic library and information systems, Vol. 19 No. 3, pp. 271-276. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb046913