Aslib Proceedings: Volume 20 Issue 1

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION—AND CO‐OPERATION IN This FIELD

M. DUCAS

This paper is based on the views and comments put forward by some thirty‐experts who head the documentation branches of French technological research establishments or institutes…

The EFFECT OF MEMBERSHIP OF The COMMON MARKET ON INFORMATION WORK

GÜNTHER REICHARDT

The ‘Common Market’, now fused with the European Union for Coal and Steel (usually abbreviated to the ‘Mining Union’) and with the European Atomic Energy Community, is primarily…

BEFORE The MACHINES COME

D.J. SIMPSON

Before the spread of printing the chief concern of the librarian was to conserve the manuscripts in his charge. Their value, and the difficulty of replacing them, made their…

A COMPUTER‐ASSISTED FLEXIBLE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM

T.N. SHAW

AS part of a policy of simplifying the indexing task in information retrieval, a system is being developed for using a computer to create indexes from a variety of styles of…

SELECTIVE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION USING A KDF9 COMPUTER

L.J. ANTHONY, D.H. CARPENTER, A.G. CHENEY

Many libraries in research organizations and in industry operate current awareness services of one kind or another, ranging from the circulation of copies of periodicals to the…

SEARCH STRATEGY EVALUATION IN MANUAL AND AUTOMATED SYSTEMS

MICHAEL KEEN

Document retrival systems are designed and implemented for the purpose of satisfying the information needs of a group of users, and the final stage of the technical processes…

Letters to the Editor

Dear Sir, As one of the founders of the Co‐ordinate Indexing Group, I fully support Miss Lewis's question (November, p.387) as to how much of Mr Jolley's terminology is necessary…