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AN EXPERIMENTAL CURRENT AWARENESS SERVICE IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: THE HOUSE OF COMMONS LIBRARY/CULHAM LABORATORY PROJECT
J.L. HALL, JOHN PALMER, J.B. POOLEDetails are given of an experimental information service sponsored by the Office for Scientific and Technical Information through its Documentation Processing Centre as part of a…
PHOTOCOPIES v. PERIODICALS: COST‐EFFECTIVENESS IN THE SPECIAL LIBRARY
B.C. BROOKESEvidence provided by the Dainton Report indicates that special libraries in the UK are far from fully exploiting the photocopying services provided by the national libraries. As…
THE ANALYSIS OF LIBRARY PROCESSES
A library, like any other man‐made system, exists to provide services that are believed to meet certain needs. It will be effective to the extent that user needs have been…
THE ‘HALF‐LIFE’ OF PERIODICAL LITERATURE: APPARENT AND REAL OBSOLESCENCE
M.B. LINEThe expression ‘half‐life’, borrowed from physics, has appeared quite frequently in the literature on documentation since 1960, when an article by Burton and Kebler on The…
Evaluation Tests of Information Retrieval Systems
CYRIL CLEVERDONThirty years or more ago, a favoured question in examination papers for librarians was some variation on the theme ‘Compare the merits of a classified catalogue and an…
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