Aslib Proceedings: Volume 20 Issue 3

GHILLYING FOR SCIENCE—ROD OR NET?

W.E. BATTEN

I suppose the first duty of a hunter's servant is to know what kind of quarry the laird is looking for. In the great field sport of information, I often think that we serve a…

The PROPOSED WORLD INSTITUTE FOR DOCUMENTATION OF HOUSING, BUILDING AND PLANNING

B. AGARD EVANS

Before embarking on this paper, I want to make an emphatic disclaimer. In so far as the proposed Institute has political angles, these are expressly excluded from my treatment…

PRODUCT ANALYSIS BY CO‐ORDINATE INDEX

G.H. HUTTON

As architects with a specialized practice giving advice to manufacturers and others on product development and performance specification, we find the handling and interpretation…

The CONSTRUCTION OF A THESAURUS

R.M. ROSTRON

Our first attempt at co‐ordinate indexing was the analysis of proprietary building systems, but the results were so encouraging that we decided to apply the method to the much…

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