Aslib Proceedings: Volume 31 Issue 2

The politics of knowledge

Charles Clark

I am a practising publisher and I approach the task this afternoon very much with that kind of bias. I am not an academic and I am not a real lawyer. I am a practising publisher…

Government attitudes to information

Richard Buchanan

Britain except in time of war has never had a Minister of Information. Each Minister is responsible not only for the policy of his Department but also for the publicity of that…

The information industry: what it contributes, where it is going, its impact on information provision in the public sector: a general and official view from the standpoint of the operator and producer

Raymond K. Appleyard

The Commission of the European Communities plays a dual role in the information industry due to its resemblance to and interaction with governments:

Growing user information dependence and its impact on the library field

Herbert S. White

The now widely accepted description of the new post‐industrial society as defined by Daniel Bell clearly points to an emphasis on the provision of services rather than on the…

The concept of a national organization for information: the British Library, achievements and potential

Harry Hookway

Rather than making an exhaustive survey of the Library's progress since 1973, I have selected a few areas that seem to me to be important in illustrating the British Library's…

The impact of the British Library on the national and international scene

Norman Higham

When the standing Conference of National and University Libraries was formed in 1951, its purpose was to bring together a group of libraries supporting research, especially in the…