Aslib Proceedings: Volume 26 Issue 2

Enquiry services provided by trade journal editorials

Margaret Bidmead

A survey was carried out to determine the ways in which trade journal editors are able to answer the various types of enquiry which they receive, and to discover how far they are…

Map conservation in an academic geography department

A.J. Bird

Time‐saving procedures and avoidance of material replacements due to damage and loss are the problems which must be appreciated in an academic department administering a…

Management advisory services for the small firm

E.G. Wood

The subject of small firms has aroused increasing interest in recent years, particularly since the Report of the Bolton Committee of Inquiry on Small Firms, published in November…

Content representation in document titles: a case study with prostaglandin literature

J.S. Ghosh

A total of 2,792 document titles published in a specialized subject bibliography entitled The Prostaglandins by the Upjohn Company, USA, was examined. There was a slight but…

Draft definitions: Information and library needs, wants, demands and uses

MAURICE B. LINE

The literature on ‘user needs’ has been confused by imprecise use of terms. In particular, studies have purported to be concerned with needs when they have in fact examined uses…