Aslib Proceedings: Volume 32 Issue 4

Student opinion of the services of a university library

G.D. Moss, A.M.W. Green

A survey of student user opinion of the new university Arts and Social Studies Library is reported. Students are concerned more about adequacy of book stocks and study spaces than…

The hidden cost of saving: the effect of cancelling periodicals

P.G. Peacock

Little attention has been given to the long term effects of cancelling periodicals. A case study of Stirling University Library between 1973/76 and 1978/79 is used to demonstrate…

The two cultures: an examination of the factors inhibiting the provision of effective, library‐based information services to social welfare practitioners

Bill Blake, Trevor Morkham, Alison Skinner

This article stems from the work of the EISSWA Research Project, which has been using an action research approach to explore the information needs of social welfare practitioners…

Electronic translation?

Barbara Snell

‘The age of miracles is over,’ they say, attributing the wonders of today's world to technology. But if the advertisement for a ‘Language Translator’ is to be believed, we must…

A bibliographic system for solar energy information on the Middle East

Pah I. Chen, Vladimir T. Borovansky

A bibliographic system has been developed at the University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, for gathering, organizing and disseminating the solar energy…