Aslib Proceedings: Volume 30 Issue 4

Should we educate our users?

Elizabeth Orna

This article came about because of an attempt to plan a seminar on user education in special libraries. While there are any number of user‐education studies in educational…

Designing a business information service for top management

G.D.L. Paterson

Two business librarians recently went on record as saying that ‘top management tends to have a smaller need for information because it is frequently involved in the…

Pruning periodical subscriptions at Glasgow University Library

Elizabeth Rodger

Faced with the prospect of a swingeing 15 per cent cut in their periodicals budget, Glasgow University Library carried out during 1977 several exercises to determine which titles…