Journal of Documentation: Volume 25 Issue 4

NATIONAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS

CHARLES F. CARTER

One of the surest ways of delaying progress is to appoint a committee to answer the wrong questions. Any attempt to ask the right questions will then, for several years, be…

A PUBLIC LIBRARY VIEWPOINT

WM R. MAIDMENT

The National Library should be the last place to which a reader will go for books or information; in other words, the mass need should be met by local or special services and the…

THE IMPLICATIONS FOR ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS

W.L. SAUNDERS

One of the major services of the ‘Parry Report’ was to highlight the interdependence of the university libraries and the national libraries. Indeed, its recommendations on the…

THE POINT OF VIEW OF INDUSTRY

D.J. CAMPBELL

The report of the Dainton Committee is the result of the first examination by a Government‐appointed committee of the national libraries. The Committee ‘early took the view that…

A SOCIAL SCIENCE VIEW

D.A. CLARKE

Since research in the social sciences is predominantly library‐based, social scientists must have a particular interest in the best possible organization of library services; and…

THE NEEDS OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY

N. KURTI

Just as the Dainton Report is written in the first person plural so this brief discussion of how the conclusions of the Report might affect scientists is written in the first…

Empirical Hyperbolic Distributions (Bradford‐Zipf‐Mandelbrot) for Bibliometric Description and Prediction

ROBERT A. FAIRTHORNE

Since 1960, and especially during the past three years, many papers have appeared about particular manifestations and applications of a certain class of empirical laws to a field…

DOCUMENTATION NOTES

OLE V. GROOS, ALAN PRITCHARD

Meadows analysed the citations appearing in the 1963–5 volumes of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, eliminating duplicate citations from consideration. He…