Not many weeks back, according to newspaper reports, three members of the library staff of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London were dismissed. All had…
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Not many weeks back, according to newspaper reports, three members of the library staff of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London were dismissed. All had refused to carry out issue desk duty. All, according to the newspaper account, were members of ASTMS. None, according to the Library Association yearbook, was a member of the appropriate professional organisation for librarians in Great Britain.
EARLY in the 1950s, it became evident that the work of the Information Department was so very broad and varied that information assistants with any specialization of subject or…
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EARLY in the 1950s, it became evident that the work of the Information Department was so very broad and varied that information assistants with any specialization of subject or language could not be expected to remain in a permanent capacity at Aslib, where their knowledge could not be exploited fully. On the other hand, this very breadth and variety offered an exceptional opportunity to gain experience in using sources of information of all kinds in many different fields. A training scheme was therefore developed for scientists in their first year after graduation. This was before the initiation of formal postgraduate education for information scientists, but the scheme has continued as a practical alternative for science, economics or language graduates who have decided on information work as a career but have opted against following a vocational course. Throughout the 1960s, four Traineeships were offered, for which seventy or eighty applications were received each year.
In the first quarter of 1951 the Aslib Information Department received 239 requests from members to borrow publications. In the ten years that have passed since then there has…
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In the first quarter of 1951 the Aslib Information Department received 239 requests from members to borrow publications. In the ten years that have passed since then there has been an astonishing increase in the work of this department so that in the first quarter of 1960 there were 2,791 requests to borrow publications, received from members—more than a tenfold increase in this one type of work alone.
May THU.7. Aslib Northern Branch Annual General Meeting. Bisra, Sheffield. 2 p.m.
An introductory course for graduates entering information or special library work, and other persons put in charge of library or information departments without previous…
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An introductory course for graduates entering information or special library work, and other persons put in charge of library or information departments without previous experience, will be held at Aslib from 30th October to 3rd November 1961. Lectures will introduce students to the basic principles governing the handling of information, and acquaint them with some of the practical details of the operation of an information service or library. There will be a practical session and a discussion session, and visits to a number of libraries and information departments, including Aslib library and information department, have been arranged. The lectures will be given by the Education Officer, Mr Jack Bird. The fee for the course will be £10. Further details and application forms can be obtained from Aslib.
Zawiyah M. Yusof and Robert W. Chell
This is the second part of a two‐part article which examines the various definitions accorded to the two key terms in records management – the records and records management…
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This is the second part of a two‐part article which examines the various definitions accorded to the two key terms in records management – the records and records management. Variations in their definition have lead to confusion which affects the formulation of theory to underpin the discipline. Having discussed the changing definition of a record in Part 1 in this part the authors discuss the various definitions of records management.
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SUMMARY Aslib was invited to assist the Committee in the following terms:
New terms of grant for the above period have been offered by OSTI and accepted by Aslib. These grants are in four sections: income‐related grants for support of (a) Aslib's…
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New terms of grant for the above period have been offered by OSTI and accepted by Aslib. These grants are in four sections: income‐related grants for support of (a) Aslib's general range of activities and (b) its general research programme; and expenditure‐related grants for (c) the experimental development and evaluation of new services and (d) contracts for research projects commissioned by OSTI.
Members will be pleased to know of the marriage on 29th April of Miss D. M. Bremner, Liaison Officer at Aslib, to Mr Robert L. Sauvée, A.M.I.MECH.E., Manager, Estimating Department…
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Members will be pleased to know of the marriage on 29th April of Miss D. M. Bremner, Liaison Officer at Aslib, to Mr Robert L. Sauvée, A.M.I.MECH.E., Manager, Estimating Department, Sovex Ltd. We are glad to report that Mrs Sauvée means to carry on her work at Aslib and we wish her and her husband every happiness in the future.
Sir John Wolfenden, Vice‐Chancellor of Reading University, and Dr. T. E. Allibone, Director of the Associated Electrical Industries Ltd. Research Laboratory at Aldermaston, have…
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Sir John Wolfenden, Vice‐Chancellor of Reading University, and Dr. T. E. Allibone, Director of the Associated Electrical Industries Ltd. Research Laboratory at Aldermaston, have been appointed official D.S.I.R. Visitors to Aslib. Their appointment extends to Aslib for the first time the Visitor system which has operated so successfully for many years between the Department and the Research Associations. The Visitors are available to discuss and advise on general policies and to give independent advice to the Department whenever an application for Government grant is made. Aslib is singularly fortunate in the choice of two such eminent persons to take an interest in its work, and trusts that they will enjoy their association with Aslib as much as Aslib will enjoy their interest and help.