Aslib Proceedings: Volume 25 Issue 10

Justification of information services

R.D. Gee

Of all the speakers today, I think I have the easiest task, since I have to set the stage for justifying information services faced with the widespread problems with which you…

Information services in industry: The FUTURE PROSPECTS

B.C. Burrows

This talk is about the future. There is only one certain thing we know about the future and that is that we know nothing about the future.

Public relations: the soft sell

P. O'N. Hoey

Within the framework of the subject ‘promoting industrial library and information systems’ it is logical to examine the role which public relations plays. Public relations may be…

Education and Training: For Staff and Users

G.R. Cliffe

Surveys carried out in the UK have shown that only about 10% of University graduates in Chemistry have received formal training in the use of the chemical literature and in the…

Publicity or Selling the Information Service

A.R. Haygarth Jackson

Communication is really the essence of information science. The best information service in the world has no meaning unless it is used. So the information scientists and…

A device for recording the process and result of manual search of inverted files

G.E. Diggle, Helen M. Townley

We have recently been concerned with devising a search tool for a group of geographically spread workers, concerned with searching through records of sone 10,000 items. The data…