Aslib Proceedings

EDITING AND RUNNING A HOUSE JOURNAL

ERIC N. SIMONS

Why ever the subject on which I have been asked to speak was chosen for after‐dinner I do not understand. After‐dinner speakers are by tradition required to be jocular…

METHODS OF RECORDING LOANS

B. WARBURTON

My talk about methods of recording loans is going to be limited to those used in special libraries, although the purpose for which a loan record is made is the same in…

The USE OF TRADE LITERATURE

C.C. LINSTEAD

In a paper by a then prominent member of the Northern Branch of Aslib, who is not unknown to many of us here, given to the Scottish Branch in 1953, the author deplored the…

INDIVIDUAL ABSTRACTS VERSUS BULLETINS

W.R. MOSS

I do not intend, in this paper, to confine my remarks to the narrow ground of abstracts versus bulletins. The two are complementary rather than in rivalry. It is almost…

Is The CIRCULATION OF PERIODICALS DESIRABLE?

H. THORNTON

Is it desirable to circulate periodicals? An emphatic ‘yes’ is calculated to antagonise half of you from the outset. An emphatic ‘no’ is obviously going to do likewise. It…

Why MAKE YOUR OWN INDEXES?

F. NEWBY

Until a few weeks ago, when I heard of a managing director of a large firm who asked his technical librarian ‘Why do you go to all this trouble to make your own indexes?’…