Aslib Proceedings: Volume 25 Issue 8
Table of contents
Countryside Information: a Literature Review
R.J. ArdernThis promises to be a most interesting meeting on Information and the Environment. We are all vitally concerned. Most of us live, if not in conurbations, at least in towns and…
Information for Environmental Planning
Brenda WhiteI traditionally begin a paper with one or more definitions. This is not pedantic but a matter of necessity if one is to communicate efficiently, particularly nowadays when loose…
Sources of Information on Environmental Pollution
Nigel HarveyEnvironmental pollution is defined, essentially, as the discharge by human action into the environment of something undesirable, for example, a gas, a chemical, oil, a noise. So…
The Scope for Operational Research in the Library and Information Field
Martin Elton, Brian VickeryOperational research was born during the 1939–45 war as an aid to military decision making. After the war it was rapidly applied to industrial production, and many new techniques…
Report Literature in the UK
Aslib Information DepartmentThe major report collections in the UK are those of the British Library and the Technology Reports Centre of the Department of Trade and Industry. The British Library's loan…