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Publication date: 1 February 1961

Aslib's third conference on business records will be held on Thursday nth May in the Connaught Rooms, Great Queen Street, London, WC2. The special purpose of this conference is to…

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Aslib's third conference on business records will be held on Thursday nth May in the Connaught Rooms, Great Queen Street, London, WC2. The special purpose of this conference is to stimulate active interest in the importance of correspondence as a basic source of information. There is evidence that control of correspondence is still one of the major administrative difficulties in organizations of all types. The programme, which has been planned by representatives of Aslib, the British Institute of Management, the Institute of Office Management, the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, and H.M. Treasury (O & M Division), will fall into four parts: i, an introductory paper discussing the subject from the administrative point of view; ii, a survey of procedures, based on a questionnaire recently sent to a representative selection of Aslib members; iii, a paper on training personnel for business records work; and iv, a summary of the proceedings with special reference to the problem of who should control correspondence records. The Chairman will be Miss Barbara Kyle, Assistant Director, National Book League, and among the speakers there will be Dr C. H. Thompson, Records Officer, National Coal Board; Mr Wilfred Ashworth, Librarian and Information Officer, British Nylon Spinners Ltd; and Mr L. H. Bunker, H.M. Treasury (O & M Division).

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 13 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 January 1991

Wilfred Ashworth and Ian Pettman

Microcomputers are now vital tools in many libraries and information centres and they are used not only to facilitate administrative and clerical operations but also as a means of…

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Microcomputers are now vital tools in many libraries and information centres and they are used not only to facilitate administrative and clerical operations but also as a means of accessing information in many different formats. Yet the need for proper management, control and maintenance of these machines has not received the attention it deserves except by way of passing references in the literature on the use of microcomputers in libraries. Elizabeth Lane has attempted to fill the gap with a comprehensive manual. On the management side it covers the planning process, assessment of needs and system requirements, evaluation and cost/benefit analysis, purchase and installation, orientation and training, and record keeping. On the maintenance side the subject is divided into preventive maintenance, responsive maintenance, and costs.

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New Library World, vol. 92 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 September 1989

Wilfred Ashworth

The Daily Telegraph for 12 July, 1989 carries a report by Candida Crewe of her interview of Pauline Brown, for 40 years Librarian of Harrods Library, following the news that…

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The Daily Telegraph for 12 July, 1989 carries a report by Candida Crewe of her interview of Pauline Brown, for 40 years Librarian of Harrods Library, following the news that Harrods have decided to close the Library on 1 August because it is no longer profitable.

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New Library World, vol. 90 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 February 1981

Alan Day, Malcolm Key, Mike Cornford, Wilfred Ashworth, Richard Preston, Mike Pattinson, Roman Iwaschkin and Wilfred Ashworth

THE New English dictionary on historical principles founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society, edited by James A H Murray, forty‐four years in the…

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THE New English dictionary on historical principles founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society, edited by James A H Murray, forty‐four years in the making, and now known the world over as the Oxford English dictionary holds an unchallenged place in that remarkable series of substantial works of learning and scholarship planned, nurtured, and executed in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The Rolls series, the Dictionary of national biography, and at the turn of the century, the Cambridge moderm history and the Victorian history of the counties of England, all bear witness to the tremendous, almost incredible, energy of the Victorian middle classes who, sometimes holding academic posts at the universities, or perhaps earning their bread as publishers (regarded then as one of the very few commercial pursuits allowed to gentlemen), formed clubs and learned societies to occupy their ‘leisure’ hours, and conceived and brought to fruition their costly schemes for ambitious publishing programmes, refusing to be deterred by years of unremitting toil which consumed their time, their money, but never sapped their vision or their dedication.

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New Library World, vol. 82 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 April 1991

Frank Atkinson and Wilfred Ashworth

Those of us who work, or have ever worked, in academic or public libraries know “Granger” — formerly Granger's Index to Poetry and now The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry

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Those of us who work, or have ever worked, in academic or public libraries know “Granger” — formerly Granger's Index to Poetry and now The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry — which is almost as old as this century. As it is the only substantial index to verse for adults, it cannot be evaluated by comparison; so a reviewer is already halfway to redundancy.

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New Library World, vol. 92 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 May 1984

Allan Bunch, Edwin Fleming, Edward Dudley and Wilfred Ashworth

I RECEIVED a most unusual publication through the post the other day which may not strictly come within the scope of this column, since it won't answer any particular problem…

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I RECEIVED a most unusual publication through the post the other day which may not strictly come within the scope of this column, since it won't answer any particular problem except that of where to go for your holidays. It's called The North: a feminist local history and holiday guide by Susan Evasdaughter and is one of a series of similar booklets that includes London, Home Counties, West Country, Wales, and Central England. The books are not intended to be comprehensive holiday guides listing the best places to stay, the most interesting walks etc, but rather set out by area some of the most important things of specific interest to women. Information ranges from ‘pre‐historic matriarchal times’ to present day feminist activities. There is information on women castle builders, famous lesbians, local women heroes, artists, queens and witches, suffragettes, politicians, discoverers etc. Where possible information is given about places for women to stay although there aren't many specifically for women. The quality of printing is fairly basic; I expect the booklets were produced on a shoestring, so don't expect tourist board glossies. However, a lot of work has obviously gone into them, each has a name index, and they would be useful additions not only for local studies collections but also for any libraries who have a community information section on women's studies. The booklets cost £1.00 from 47 Ladysmith Avenue, Newbury Park, Ilford, Essex.

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New Library World, vol. 85 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

Article
Publication date: 1 May 1972

Wilfred Ashworth

There is a story of the tourist who, after a special package tour intended to show the British way of life, complained that he had not been shown the Church of England! I meet…

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There is a story of the tourist who, after a special package tour intended to show the British way of life, complained that he had not been shown the Church of England! I meet much the same situation when people ask me to show them the Library of the Polytechnic of Central London for it has seven separate divisions dotted around its fourteen buildings and to show it all involves a walk of several miles. Perhaps this is why the Winter Meetings Committee decided to ask me when they thought it time that some attention was focused on the problem of administering diffuse collections. I have been a member of that Committee myself and can imagine the discussion. First the doubt—‘but he hasn't been there very long’, then the hopeful—‘well at least he'll have had to think about it’, and that's another meeting as good as fixed!

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 24 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 April 1950

WILFRED ASHWORTH

There can be few libraries where the need for reorganization has not at some time been felt, and it is therefore a subject of very wide interest. The previous paper dealt with the…

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There can be few libraries where the need for reorganization has not at some time been felt, and it is therefore a subject of very wide interest. The previous paper dealt with the planning of special library buildings, with their equipment, and administration—the present paper will deal with reorganization as applied to the stock of a library, and with the more usual aspects of that type of reorganization, namely recataloguing and reclassification. As would be expected, a fair amount has been written about the problem. Unfortunately, it is a matter in which so much depends on local conditions, on the scale of the operations, on what has gone before and what is to follow, and on the resources available, that it is difficult to give comprehensive practical advice. Most of the literature is therefore confined to generalities, and many of these, though arrived at by investigation of reorganization in a large number of libraries, might equally well have been reached by the use of common sense. This particular attribute has always had a very high value in special librarianship, and if, at the end, you are able to dismiss this paper as ‘just common sense’, then I shall feel that it has been a most useful contribution to the problem!

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 2 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 June 1990

Wilfred Ashworth and Ian Pettman

Feona Hamilton, formerly the Library Association's Press Officer and later for a time Information, Research and Consultancy Group Manager at Aslib, offers her experience in public…

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Feona Hamilton, formerly the Library Association's Press Officer and later for a time Information, Research and Consultancy Group Manager at Aslib, offers her experience in public relations in the library world to librarians and information professionals wishing to publicise or market their services. She adopts the definitions that publicity consists of promoting something in order to draw attention to it, whereas marketing consists of promoting something in order to sell it. It has long been known that the public image of librarians is unacceptably low and that libraries fail to attract the attention they deserve, even within the organisation or authority that supports them. Everyone suffers in consequence yet surprisingly little is done to counter this belief of inferiority. There are articles and some other books, mostly of US origin, on this topic, but nothing exactly like Infopromotion.

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New Library World, vol. 91 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 October 1990

Wilfred Ashworth

When the British Library moves to its new building at St Pancras it will be able to improve accessibility to most of the national reference collections for all who have need. The…

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When the British Library moves to its new building at St Pancras it will be able to improve accessibility to most of the national reference collections for all who have need. The procedures for admission will be simplified and the Reading Rooms will be open to those aged 18 and over and it is intended that a system of registering users and issuing passes will be developed and available well before the opening in 1993.

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New Library World, vol. 91 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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