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Before attempting to forecast the future trends and possibilities in the provision of information services for industry it is necessary first of all to consider the characteristics of present‐day industrial society and, secondly, the information needs of the industrial units upon which our present economy is based.

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

I am very glad of this opportunity of telling you something about the work of the Technical Information and Documents Unit, because I am sure that this organization has something to offer both the engineer and the librarian. Scientists and engineers often say that they have not time to read, while librarians are just as certain that the scientist does not know how to read. Doubtless there is some truth in both these generalizations. However, it is also true that T.I.D.U. exists primarily to help the scientist and engineer, and one of the ways it does this is to help them to see the things they ought to read.

It has often been said that a great part of the strength of Aslib lies in the fact that it brings together those whose experience has been gained in many widely differing fields but who have a common interest in the means by which information may be collected and disseminated to the greatest advantage. Lists of its members have, therefore, a more than ordinary value since they present, in miniature, a cross‐section of institutions and individuals who share this special interest.

INSUFFICIENT use is made of work study in industry. A more widespread application of work study depends on full recognition by management and on the efforts of properly trained work study engineers. Better facilities for training and a commonly accepted system of training leading to a recognised standard of competence are, therefore, essential.

Time and Motion Study, as its name implies, has always advocated the integration of all Work Study interests. It has always held the view that Motion Study and Time Study are complementary to one another.

AS soon as ever possible it is to be hoped that those responsible for looking after the interests of work study technicians will sit at a round table and agree upon what the relative rewards of the various grades of technicians should be.

SELECTED by the European Council of the International Committee for Scientific Management (C.I.O.S.) to organise the first European Conference devoted entirely to management problems, the British Institure of Management has risen nobly to the occasion with a three‐day programme full of interest and variety within the main framework of the conference theme. It is hoped that representatives from no less than fourteen European countries will attend.

WITH the approach of the European Management Conference at Torquay and the news that The Work Study Society will be holding a one‐day Conference in London on October 14th and another in Hereford on November 25th it looks as if work study men will have plenty of opportunities of exchanging points of view this autumn.

This paper is the first of what is intended to be an annual survey of the literature of documentation, covering both special librarianship and information work. Its aim is to select from the year's publications, whether books, pamphlets, periodical articles or any of the other miscellaneous items which form an important part of the stock of special libraries, those which are most likely to be of practical value in day‐to‐day work. It is designed specifically to help personnel in small libraries, and is directed particularly towards those who have not yet completed their library training or, in the case of information officers, those who have not yet had much experience.