SUBJECT INQUIRIES AND LITERATURE SEARCHING

Abstract

In this talk I am going to discuss subject inquiries—that is, inquiries for information about a subject, necessitating a literature search, however trivial, as compared with requests for specified documents. Subject inquiries are numerous. Preliminary results of a current Aslib investigation show that in thirteen industrial libraries forming the sample, nearly half the ‘acts of library use’ on the test day comprised searches for information on a subject.

Citation

HANSON, C.W. (1963), "SUBJECT INQUIRIES AND LITERATURE SEARCHING", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 15 No. 11, pp. 315-322. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049940