Aslib Proceedings: Volume 37 Issue 9

Current awareness in education: an evaluation of Trent Polytechnic's Education News

T. Whitehall

Education News is one of several information bulletins produced by the library at Trent Polytechnic. It contains references to articles in newspapers and journals on topics of…

What's so special about the special librarian?

Sylvia P. Webb

‘Communication and organisational abilities of a high order’, ‘marketing and training skills’, ‘management experience’, ‘innovator’, ‘enthusiastic and lively personality’ — these…

Bibliographic current awareness services — a review

J.E. Rowley

Draws together the various options for current awareness services and assesses the future for such services. Attention is focused on the services offered by text retrieval…

User‐survey of an international library — resource allocation: preferred allocations of the library budget

Robert Norton, David Gautschi

In a previous paper we have attempted to describe the potential value of measuring how users perceive the library, and we have shown how segments of the user population could be…