Aslib Proceedings: Volume 32 Issue 11

Consumer information and advice: the role of public libraries

Jennifer Rowley, David Butcher, Christopher Turner

An examination of the work of Consumer Advice Centres and of the information sources and support activities that public libraries can offer. CAC's have dealt with pre‐shopping…

CAB Abstracts: a global view

Blaise Cronin

This paper summarizes the findings of a recent survey of user reactions to the abstracting services produced by The Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux (CAB). The study was carried…

Requests in biomedicine not available through interlibrary loans

J. Carson

Of a random sample of 105 requests returned by the BLLD, 50 per cent were for serials. Searches of computerized databases recovered abstracts, indexing terms, or addresses for…

Trends in bibliographic publishing in the United Kingdom, 1974–78

Peter J. Taylor

‘The value of bibliography has only been noticeably increased to the extent that the needs of the times call more pressingly than ever before for rearrangement of the economics of…

Acquisitions and their processing in Edinburgh University library: results of a survey

Derek G. Law

A survey of acquisitions over a three month period used the same methods as earlier unpublished surveys conducted by four neighbouring university libraries. Acquisitions are…