Aslib Proceedings: Volume 24 Issue 10
Table of contents
1. MANPOWER REQUIREMENTS AND TRAINING
B.J. PerryIn the twenty minutes available, it will be difficult to deal in any great detail with either of the aspects embodied in the tide of my talk. What I shall do is to touch upon:
2. ROLES AND SYSTEMS: The NEED FOR CHANGE
B.T. SternDuring the rest of this decade there will be substantial changes in the type of activities carried out by information workers, both as a result of improvements in technology to…
The place of professional education in higher education in the future
Bryan ThwaitesOn taking office some years ago, an incoming Minister of Education was reported to have said to his senior civil servants something on these lines: ‘Never in the field of human…
1. The PROGRAMME THAT EXISTS AND OMISSIONS
T. BrimelowThe system of education for information work and librarianship in this country has been essentially a pragmatic development. The cynic may say accidental or even chaotic and to…
2. EDUCATION OF INFORMATION SPECIALISTS FOR The 1970s
Herbert SchurThe previous speakers in this symposium considered in varying detail the questions ‘who’, ‘how’, ‘where’, and ‘what’, in relation to manpower and its education and training. In…
FID'S STANDARD REFERENCE CODE PROJECT AND UDC IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME
G.A. LloydIt is always a pleasure to revisit the London scene, even if the occasion is a symposium where one is asked ‘to put the case for the FID's new policy for a Standard Reference…
SRC: UNVERIFIED ASSUMPTIONS
D. NewcombeThe speaker explained that the stimulus for the SRC proposal came partially from the UNISIST study report in which the working group responsible for subject specification had…
WHAT IS REALLY WRONG WITH The UDC?
J. Roland SmithThe right people to say what was wrong with the UDC were the users of the UDC. They had invested in it. Now the FID had authorized preparation of the Standard Reference Code, one…
CONCLUSIONS
A.C. FoskettThe discussion may be summed up under four headings, only one of which is classification; the other three are Politics, Finance and Management. We may begin with Politics, for…