Journal of Documentation: Volume 17 Issue 2

CONCERNING CONFERENCES

ALEXANDER KING

The conference, and especially the international conference, is one of the most remarkable phenomena of modern society. Infectious and insidious, it has during the last few…

THE SOURCES OF BOOKS FOR UNDERGRADUATES: a survey at Leeds University Library

P.E. TUCKER

The Library of the University of Leeds, at the invitation of the Nuffield Foundation, carried out a survey of the borrowing use made of it by the staff, research students, and…

THE NEW PERIODICALS WING OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON LIBRARY

H. MARGARET GUMMER, RAYMOND CATTON

The opening of the new wing in the University of London Library which is used entirely for periodicals may give an opportunity to say a little not only about this new part of the…

QUARTERLY DOCUMENTATION SURVEY

MOIRA PHILLIPS

The inadequacy of conventional methods for communication in the face of the ever‐increasing amount of information to be dealt with is obvious. An international system of…

THE INTERNATIONAL INVENTORY OF MUSICAL SOURCES

A. HYATT KING

‘Your name? your country? who gave you those clothes?’ These famous leading questions, uttered by the shrewd Arete on seeing the much‐travelled Odysseus clad in garments belonging…

COVERAGE BY ABSTRACTING JOURNALS OF CONFERENCE PAPERS

C.W. HANSON, MARIAN JANES

The value of the reports of scientific conferences, congresses, and symposia, published as separate volumes, has been questioned on several grounds. It has been alleged that the…

RELATIVE COSTS OF LETTERPRESS AND TYPEWRITER SETTING

B.I. O'DONNELL

It is, I think, easier to understand the rather complex relationships that exist between the costs of letterpress and typewriter setting if one starts by examining the way in…

CLASSIFICATION RESEARCH GROUP: BULLETIN NO. 6

This bulletin's immediate predecessor was devoted to the Facet Scheme devised for the Aslib Cranfield Research Project. Bulletin no. 4 dealt with the work and discussions of the…

QUARTERLY DOCUMENTATION SURVEY

members of the ASLIB RESEARCH DEPARTMENT

The aim of this project was to devise and put into practice a system that would permit publication of an index (the Index Medicus) of greater coverage, currency, and ease of use…