Aslib Proceedings: Volume 25 Issue 2

A future for the bulletin?: the results of an enquiry into how bulletins are used in today's special library

T. Whitehall

Now that so many current awareness services are available from outside the industrial special library, and internal SDI via computer is a reality in many companies, it seems…

Pilot studies in a multi‐data base environment

H.J. Zwillenberg

The Commonwealth of Australia Department of Supply, an organization in some respects not unlike the UK Department of Defence Procurement Executive operates a number of research…

Pitfalls and problems

Helen M. Townley

My originalthis paper was to take, from the literature, examples of successful solutions of practical problems found in using external information services. This would have been…

Manpower Implications: SKILLS REQUIRED TO SELECT, INTERACT WITH AND EXPLOIT EXTERNAL SERVICES TO FIT The USER'S NEEDS

John S. Rippon

S0‐called external information services are not new but in recent years they have taken on new dimensions. Because no industrial information service can be self sufficient, it has…