Aslib Proceedings: Volume 27 Issue 6
Table of contents
Looking backwards and forwards
D.J. UrquhartI do not know how many lectures and papers I have produced during my career. Most of them follow the same pattern. Somebody invites me to speak. In a weak moment I accept with but…
Library‐based information services in higher education: towards a reappraisal
Gerry M. SmithSome British academic libraries are offering information services which are misconceived and/or inappropriate. There is also a possibility that some services canvassed as a means…
A manual current awareness service at the University of Aston
Ida Vincent, John H. SealsA manual current awareness service, based on abstracting and indexing journals, and serving ten groups of staff and research students at the University of Aston Library, is…
A list of resource material in Social Welfare
Aslib Social Sciences GroupThe Aslib Social Sciences Group has been discussing the problems of information and library services in social welfare since early 1970, at first through ad hoc groups of varying…
Time‐Factor classification
R. MossOrthodox library classification and cataloguing imply continuing and indefinite expansion of libraries and their buildings. This is no longer feasible. But ‘weeding’ of stocks is…