Aslib Proceedings: Volume 8 Issue 2
Table of contents
INTRODUCTION
E.M.R. DITMASIn place of the January lecture in the London Winter Meetings series for 1955–56 Aslib members were given the opportunity to visit a number of interesting organizations. These…
SOME NOTES ON The HISTORY OF SCIENCE
DOUGLAS MCKIEAs a subject of academic study and research, the History of Science is something very new. As in many other matters of this kind, the pioneer was the University of London, where…
RECENT WORK IN FINE ARTS LIBRARIES IN LONDON
J.L. HOWGEGOI can think of no better way of beginning this paper than by defining a Fine Arts Library; and no better definition of a Fine Arts Library than that given by Mr. Wheen in…
D.S.I.R. AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
D.J. URQUHARTWithin D.S.I.R., by a technical information service we do not mean a library or an abstracting service or a translating service. A technical information service may contain all or…
ODD JOBS: A SYMPOSIUM: I ODD JOBS IN A MARINE LIBRARY
H. MCCALLWhat an odd kind of specialist a marine librarian is. A normal specialist, if there is such a creature, has been defined as a man who knows more and more about less and less…
TRADE WITH LATIN AMERICA
A. CUTTS‐WATSONAny attempt to generalize when referring to Latin America is extremely hazardous, since economic causes, effects and trends vary from country to country and there is always some…
MEMBERS' FORUM SIGNPOSTS: SOME SELECTIONS FROM The 1955 SPECIAL LIBRARY LITERATURE
J. BIRDThis series of articles, now in its fourth year, has been designed to fill a gap in the bibliographical coverage of library literature which is covered by no other publication…
A RUSSIAN ABSTRACTING SERVICE IN The FIELD OF SCIENCES: REFERATIVNYI ZHURNAL
ELIZABETH BEYERLYThe only way to keep abreast of the constant advances in science appears to be the scanning of abstracting journals. The various Zentralblätter in Germany, the many ‘abstracts’ …