Aslib Proceedings

Towards a Code of Professional Ethics

Bob Usherwood

At the risk of sounding like an over‐cautious civil servant I should make it clear that any opinions or interpretations I give in this paper are mine and not necessarily…

Databanks

Blaise Cronin

The aim of this short paper is to draw attention to the growing importance of online retrieval of non‐bibliographic information, and to summarize the salient features of…

Self‐paced exercises for library orientation

Nancy Fjällbrant, Elisabeth Kihlén, Margareta Malmgren

This paper points out the need for economical and effective methods for library orientation. Objectives and factors affecting the learning process are briefly stated…

The selection of periodicals for binding

P.G. Peacock

The books, periodicals and binding component of the Index of university costs is based on the assumption that the ratio of expenditure on binding to combined expenditure…

The availability of Marc records for cataloguing

R.J. Davis

This paper, written to follow a recent article in this journal on the processing of current acquisitions, reports that the amount of original cataloguing having to be done…