Aslib Proceedings: Volume 8 Issue 4
Table of contents
INTRODUCTION
ASLIB made a break with tradition when the Thirty‐first Annual Conference was planned to take place at Brighton from 1st to 4th June, 1956, instead of in the autumn. Alas, that…
LIST OF MEMBERS AND VISITORS TO The THIRTY‐FIRST CONFERENCE
Sir Raymond Streat, C.B.E., Director of The Cotton Board, Manchester, accompanied by Lady Streat. A Vice‐President: F. C. Francis, M.A., F.S.A., Keeper of the Department of…
The CHANGING FACE OF MANAGEMENT
F.C. HOOPERWhen your Director asked me to speak to the theme of your conference—‘Information Services—the cost, the value and the means’—and I told him that I was quite unable to do so, he…
INFORMATION SERVICES: ASSESSING THEIR VALUE
C.W. CLEVERDON, L.J. HARPERThere are several reasons for thinking that special librarianship today is at a most interesting but also most serious and even critical stage. The life of Aslib, which one may…
ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE WORK
A.R. SMITHThe purpose of this paper is threefold. First, to provide an account of economic and commercial intelligence work. Second, to make clear the essential differences between it and…
INFORMATION SERVICES: MEASURING The COST
J.M.S. RISKIt is always a privilege to be asked to speak to the members of one's own professional body, but it is a double honour and responsibility to be invited to speak to the members of…
I PERIODICALS AND THEIR USERS
FRANK GREENAWAYThe first thing to strike one about a periodical is that it is periodical. It arrives at regular intervals and each issue is attractive because it combines the attributes of…
II PERIODICALS IN INFORMATION WORK
C.W. HANSONScientific and technical periodicals are read soon after publication by individuals, for their own enlightenment. In addition to these ‘personal’ users, periodicals have what I…
III The VIEWS OF AN EDITOR
R.S. CAHNAS this is a Sunday afternoon I shall put the point of view of the editor of a scientific society's journal bluntly, without concessions to the other fellow's point of view.
IV The MULTIPLICITY OF JOURNALS
R.A. WATSONMy contribution to the afternoon's discussion is confined to some thoughts on the multiplicity of journals. We have heard the definition of a periodical, but my own favourite…