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Linear barcodes have found wide acceptance in all sectors of industry as machine‐readable part identifiers, but their low data density limits practical data capacity to some 20 characters. Two‐dimensional codes, however, have a much higher data density, and can contain significant volumes of data in compact symbols that can be printed or marked directly on to small parts. When used as portable data files 2‐D encoding provides both flexibility and prospects for applications unachievable with linear barcode data carriers. This paper discusses 2‐D codes and the potential for their applications in automated manufacturing.

Machine‐readable data carriers are distinguished as an important emergent area of information technology exhibiting revolutionary and radical attributes in respect of their value in process enhancement and new product and process development. The objective of this paper is to present an awareness of the subject and its relevance to automated assembly.

We are pleased to publish in this issue an article by Mr. H. H. Bagnall, the recently retired City Analyst of Birmingham, who has for many years been a dominant figure in the world of public analysts. His annual reports have always attracted wide publicity, both for their originality in exposing “ tricks of the trade ” and for his comments, sometimes caustic, sometimes racy, on those who perpetuate such tricks. In his article, he looks backwards through the years to describe in his own inimitable style a few of the important cases he has figured in and we agree with him, that many others in the field of food administration and approaching the end of their public careers, could well emulate this example.

WITH this issue we are commencing the twenty‐seventh year of our career as an independent Library Journal and trust that we shall carry on the tradition of our illustrious founder and continue to criticise or praise without fear or favour. During the past twelve months our editorial staff has successfully produced special numbers dealing with Bookbinding, Book Selection, Children's Departments, Classification, and Colonial Libraries. Judging by the correspondence we have received, our efforts have been greatly appreciated by the majority of our readers. Naturally we have not pleased everybody and we have even been dubbed the “little contemporary” in some quarters. However, we can point to an unbroken record of twenty‐six years' endeavour to serve the library profession and we ourselves are justly proud of the contemptible “little contemporary” that did not cease to appear even during the darkest hours of the dread war period.

Aarhus Kommunes Biblioteker (Teknisk Bibliotek), Ingerslevs Plads 7, Aarhus, Denmark. Representative: V. NEDERGAARD PEDERSEN (Librarian).

March 1, 1968 Master and Servant — Redundancy — Dismissal — Employees working and living in Liverpool — Employers operating nation‐wide contract electricity business — Business divided into large areas — Work in Liverpool falling off — Employees required to work away from home within area of operations controlled from Liverpool office — Dismissal of employees refusing to work away from home area — Industrial tribunal's finding of implied term in contract of employment that employees could be required to work anywhere within area controlled from local office — Whether finding of fact or question of law — No evidence to support — Whether court entitled to review — Whether dismissals “by reason of redundancy” — “Place where … employed” — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c.62),ss.l,9.

IN A particularly imaginative gesture, Queen's University of Belfast is to confer the honorary degree of Master of Library Studies on LA Education Officer Bernard Palmer.

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