National Coal Board R&D information services

Abstract

The need for information and intelligence services has long been recognized. About 2,500 years ago an excellent service was supplied at Delphi. The Classical Dictionary attributes the success of this unit to ‘the efficient accumulation and use of information’, although Charles Seltman has recognized in the current awareness bulletins that have survived that the oracle experienced an all‐too‐familiar difficulty in distinguishing between ‘the trivially inexplicable and the cosmically ineffable’.

Citation

Conchie, S. and Ramsbotham, B. (1975), "National Coal Board R&D information services", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 27 No. 4, pp. 132-139. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb050500