Aslib Proceedings: Volume 33 Issue 5

Recent developments in information for planning

Brenda White

In a journal article some years ago, I compared the planning profession to the profession of librarianship, both seeking a body of respectable theory with which to support a…

Problems of local government planning publications

Barry S. Nuttall

I will start by quoting from two letters I have received from local authority planning departments in recent months:

Abstracting and indexing services in planning

Eleanor Rickman

This paper is concerned with the purpose of functions of abstracting and abstracting services, touching on indexing only in relation to the indexing of abstracts, and…

ACOMPLIS: a computerised London information service

Penny Farmer

I hope that some of you may already be familiar with the name ACOMPLIS. This bibliographic database of urban information was established in 1973 by the GLC Research Library, which…

Information for urban and regional planning—the European dimension

Gay Scott

When one considers the extent of the subject—urban and regional planning and then multiplies that by the number of countries that there are in Europe, it will be apparent that the…