WILLIAM H. HOLLOWAY and GHULAM A. NIAZI
The purpose of this study was to investigate the risk taking behavior of school principals (the dependent variable) identified according to one of two leadership styles by…
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the risk taking behavior of school principals (the dependent variable) identified according to one of two leadership styles by Fielder's Esteem for Least Preferred Co‐worker instrument. Situation specific dilemmas were formulated for the study in a newly developed instrument which manipulated two situation specific independent variables (position power and group support). The findings support the contention that situation variables have a significant effect on the risk disposition of school leaders though no evidence was found to suggest that leader type (task oriented or relations oriented) may be determined by manifest differences in either observed risk disposition or computed risk shift.
The Editor, Aslib Proceedings. Madam, Though not an inveterate writer of letters to editors, I am moved to do so by Mr A.H. Holloway's opinion in your January issue (p. 16) that…
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The Editor, Aslib Proceedings. Madam, Though not an inveterate writer of letters to editors, I am moved to do so by Mr A.H. Holloway's opinion in your January issue (p. 16) that unrelieved abstracting is a monotonous and depressing task in information work.
I have often heard at conferences at which a general resolution in favour of co‐operation in the library and information field is put, a reply by Americans to the effect that we…
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I have often heard at conferences at which a general resolution in favour of co‐operation in the library and information field is put, a reply by Americans to the effect that we all love our mothers and are against sin. It is easy enough to get a conference to agree that co‐operation is a good thing, but not so easy to get all the members to agree to take specific steps: there always seems to be some very good reason why somebody should not do something which it is essential he should do if a project is to succeed. No doubt we have all had similar experiences and wondered why it should be that it is so difficult to operate a scheme which is plainly to the general benefit, and no doubt many of us have at times wondered if the game is worth the candle.
The Aslib Aeronautical Group met, under the chairmanship of Mr. A. H. Holloway, on 5th April for its sixth annual Week‐end Conference at the College of Aeronautics. The timing was…
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The Aslib Aeronautical Group met, under the chairmanship of Mr. A. H. Holloway, on 5th April for its sixth annual Week‐end Conference at the College of Aeronautics. The timing was most fortunate, as the AGARD Documentation Committee, which had been meeting in London during the week, continued its deliberations at Cranfield during the week‐end.
Information, to be of any practical use, must get into the hands of the people who want it, and if all information were openly published the question of getting it into those…
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Information, to be of any practical use, must get into the hands of the people who want it, and if all information were openly published the question of getting it into those hands would be a matter solely for the owner of the hands. In fact a considerable proportion of existing information is not published, and the acquisition of this proportion is a matter of co‐operation between the holder and the user.
Aarhus Kommunes Biblioteker (Teknisk Bibliotek), Ingerslevs Plads 7, Aarhus, Denmark. Representative: V. NEDERGAARD PEDERSEN (Librarian).
The 28th annual conference of Aslib, held at Nottingham University from 11th to 14th September, 1953, proved to be the largest that Aslib has so far organized. A list of those…
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The 28th annual conference of Aslib, held at Nottingham University from 11th to 14th September, 1953, proved to be the largest that Aslib has so far organized. A list of those present is printed on pp. 254–260. Yet again Aslib was glad to be able to welcome a number of overseas guests and members, including Dr. and Mrs. Lancour and their small daughter from the U.S.A., Drs. and Mrs. van Dijk and Miss Rom from the Netherlands, Mr. M. S. Dandekar and Mr. J. V. Karandikar from India, Miss D. M. Leach from Canada, and Mrs. T. Collin from Norway. Mr. Walter A. Southern, a Fulbright scholar from the U.S.A. affiliated to Aslib during his year's study in the United Kingdom, represented the Special Libraries Association, and Mr. J. E. Holmstrom attended as an observer on behalf of Unesco.
The Winter Meeting held at Aslib on 23rd November took the form of a ‘Brains Trust on Special Librarianship’. The members of the panel were:
Following upon Mr J. R. Stocks' paper on theoretical aspects, I should like briefly to discuss one or two examples of centralization which seem to be worthy of attention, and the…
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Following upon Mr J. R. Stocks' paper on theoretical aspects, I should like briefly to discuss one or two examples of centralization which seem to be worthy of attention, and the first of these is the United States Armed Services Technical Information Agency, generally and more conveniently known as ASTIA. This Agency, which deals entirely with information in the shape of separate unpublished reports, receives copies of them from the three American Services and from some other sources which supply reports to these Services; it abstracts and indexes these reports, supplies photographic copies of them on request and also produces accession lists with abstracts, indexes, and bibliographies; its customers are the US Services, their contractors and nobody else, and it is in fact staffed by the United States Air Force on a repayment basis. Before ASTIA was set up there was a minimum of co‐operation between the US Services so far as documentary information was concerned and now the Agency's services are far more ambitious than any one of them could contemplate separately: it has mechanized many of its operations and it has been continuously concerned to expand and improve its services, and to this end has established branch offices to give more rapid service to its scattered customers. Yet, although it gives service to all within its terms of reference who have an entitlement it receives its raw material only at the discretion of the Services, and some of these are more forthcoming than others, although it is not questioned that it provides a better service than the individual Services could.