Aslib Proceedings: Volume 28 Issue 11

Designing a system: objectives, aims and factors

Veter Vickers

Faced with the challenge of presenting the opening paper to this Aslib Conference, it was my wish to offer something rather impressive—a milestone, perhaps, in the literature of…

Management tools: their use in the design, development and operation of information services

S.D. Kemp

Even a casual glance at any work on management techniques, such as the Glossary prepared by Argenti and Rope for the BIM, discloses a bewildering array of tools available to…

Selecting the right people

R.J. Kendal

It is with a deep sense of humility that I even dare to speak on the subject of ‘Selecting the right people’ since I am very much aware that everyone is their own expert on…

Realization of staff potential

Patricia Layzell Ward

My brief is to discuss the realization of staff potential, and it seems to me to be essential to consider this question in relation to our current and likely future situation…

The role of scientific communication in the process of technological innovation

Carole Ganz

Currently inundating the United States is a variety of guidebooks to the future of information. Daniel Bell's, The Coming of the Post Industrial Society was preceded by Fritz…

The demand for business information in an academic library: an analysis of the library enquiry service of the City University Business School

Gerry M. Smith

Enquiries for information put to library staff during a six‐month period in 1976 are analysed according to subject, originator, channel, source and frequency. Results are…