Aslib Proceedings: Volume 22 Issue 6

PRACTICAL PROBLEMS AND PRINCIPLES OF IN‐SERVICE TRAINING

ALEC MARTIN

I am going to ask you to do something which information staff are often asked to do—two things at once. My group in the DEP is concerned with initiating useful research in…

IN‐SERVICE TRAINING IN The ASLIB LIBRARY AND INFORMATION DEPARTMENT

ELIZABETH MACK

EARLY in the 1950s, it became evident that the work of the Information Department was so very broad and varied that information assistants with any specialization of subject or…

The SIGNIFICANCE OF STAFF STRUCTURE AND PROMOTION POLICY

K. BOODSON

Youhave heard two papers on different aspects of training in library and information units. The object of training must be to enable the individual to make a more effective…

CO‐OPERATIVE SCHEMES FOR IN‐SERVICE TRAINING

D.I. COLLEY

Ten years ago, Professor McGregor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published a book called The human side of enterprise. In it he described two theoretical assumptions…

GENERAL DISCUSSION

CHAIRMAN: L.J. ANTHONY, ASSISTANT ASLIB DIRECTOR

Miss B.H.J. Sants (British Petroleum) said that the speakers had mentioned progressive ladders of promotion, but in most library and information units the staff were divided into…