Aslib Proceedings: Volume 40 Issue 11/12

The rhetoric of promise: advertising in the information industry

Pauline Rafferty, Blaise Cronin, Lizzie Davenport

During the First World War, the Creel Committee, set up by President Woodrow Wilson, used the powerful weapon of advertising to disseminate information and shape public opinion…

The information society—idea or entity?

William J. Martin

Whereas it has been commonplace over the years to describe societies as for example, agrarian or industrial, democratic or totalitarian, socialist or capitalist, it is scarcely…

An overview of microcomputer text retrieval packages

J.E. Rowley

Text retrieval software packages are designed to support the creation of textual rather than numerical, tabular or graphical databases. General trends concerning the nature of…

Use and abuse of statistics

Susan Hoyle

My first illustration, intended to show some of the problems facing those of us who use statistics to convey information to others, comes not from transport, but involves a…

Statistics available from the Department of Transport

Judy Akinbolu

This paper looks briefly at the types of publication produced by the Department of Transport, and says something about the availability of unpublished information. To illustrate…

Sources of non‐government transport statistics

Ernest Godward

We are, all of us, each and every day, a transport statistic. We probably do not realise the fact. As we purchase the ticket for our journey we are unwittingly entered into some…