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Publication date: 1 December 1970

‘A MAP OF THE WORLD that does not include Utopia is not worth glancing at’ wrote Oscar Wilde. ‘It leaves out the one country at which humanity is always landing. And when it lands…

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‘A MAP OF THE WORLD that does not include Utopia is not worth glancing at’ wrote Oscar Wilde. ‘It leaves out the one country at which humanity is always landing. And when it lands there it looks out and, seeing a better country, sets sail again. Progress is the realization of Utopias’.

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Work Study, vol. 19 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

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Publication date: 1 April 1956

J.M.S. RISK

It is always a privilege to be asked to speak to the members of one's own professional body, but it is a double honour and responsibility to be invited to speak to the members of…

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It is always a privilege to be asked to speak to the members of one's own professional body, but it is a double honour and responsibility to be invited to speak to the members of an association whose members are highly qualified and experienced in an entirely different field from that of the speaker.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 8 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 April 1970

SIDE by side with a steady reduction in the natural resources of the world there is a rapid increase in the amount of information available on almost every subject. Every year…

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SIDE by side with a steady reduction in the natural resources of the world there is a rapid increase in the amount of information available on almost every subject. Every year human beings generate more knowledge in the social, economic and scientific fields. So vast is the flood that the task of finding relevant information on a particular subject at the right time is of a magnitude impossible to imagine fifty years ago.

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Work Study, vol. 19 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

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Publication date: 1 January 1959

J.M.S. RISK

These proceedings cover a study conference of the Federation Internationale de Documentation, held at Beatrice Webb House, Dorking, Surrey, from the 13th to the 17th May 1957…

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These proceedings cover a study conference of the Federation Internationale de Documentation, held at Beatrice Webb House, Dorking, Surrey, from the 13th to the 17th May 1957, following a decision taken at the Brussels Conference of the F.I.D. in September 1955.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 15 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 1 April 1957

J. BIRD

This series of annual reviews of the literature of special librarianship, which now reaches its fifth year, has been designed to help those most in need of the body of…

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This series of annual reviews of the literature of special librarianship, which now reaches its fifth year, has been designed to help those most in need of the body of professional experience contained in the literature. Those special librarians or information officers with little or no professional training, who work in small departments far away from more experienced colleagues, have only the recorded knowledge in the literature to help them, but, because of lack of experience, they are often unable to sift from the mass of articles of varying value and character which crowd the pages of the professional journals the comparatively few items likely to be of practical use to them. For their benefit we present a selection of those papers really likely to give them solid help, leaving aside all purely theoretical and polemical articles, however important, and all literature on large libraries, unless they are likely to have applications in smaller ones. To these we add a selection of reference books likely to be of professional use to anyone in information work, including a number which he may wish to know about, even though he does not have them in his own library. The list is not restricted to work published in 1956, but is intended rather to be representative of items received in British libraries during that year. With the growing volume of library literature, the choice of a hundred or so items is bound to be in some respects a personal one, with which many may disagree, especially over the omissions, but it is hoped that all the items included will be of positive value.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 9 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 August 1953

FEW visitors to the Business Efficiency Exhibition held in London a few weeks ago can be in any doubt that electronic “brains” and other electro‐mechanical developments will be…

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FEW visitors to the Business Efficiency Exhibition held in London a few weeks ago can be in any doubt that electronic “brains” and other electro‐mechanical developments will be used more widely in business in future for preparing up‐to‐date records of production and sales and for doing such laborious, time‐consuming tasks as the bookkeeping necessary in the banks.

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Work Study, vol. 2 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

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Publication date: 1 June 1972

R. Sturt

I little thought, when our mutual friend, Leslie Patrick, led me last June towards the giving of this paper on costing techniques, that my standpoint would have changed to the…

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I little thought, when our mutual friend, Leslie Patrick, led me last June towards the giving of this paper on costing techniques, that my standpoint would have changed to the extent that it has. As a teacher lot nine years in the sphere of library management or administration, as it was for so long called, my outlook had been tempered by the Library Association's policy, rigorously maintained, that library education aimed to afford the novice the broadest possible view of librarianship. This meant that the descriptive—no matter how lyrical—was in; the evaluative or critical—using techniques or tools—was out.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 24 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 April 1956

ASLIB made a break with tradition when the Thirty‐first Annual Conference was planned to take place at Brighton from 1st to 4th June, 1956, instead of in the autumn. Alas, that…

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ASLIB made a break with tradition when the Thirty‐first Annual Conference was planned to take place at Brighton from 1st to 4th June, 1956, instead of in the autumn. Alas, that the weather did not play its part. A stiff, chill breeze discouraged any lingering on the sea front and by Sunday night this had degenerated into a howling gale of wind and rain. However, there are two sides to every coin. Possibly the lack of counter‐attractions contributed to larger attendances at the meetings and to the many impromptu gatherings in the foyer of the Hotel Metropole where the conference was held. Most people appeared to enjoy themselves.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 8 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 14 October 2009

Rune Elvik, Alena Høye, Truls Vaa and Michael Sørensen

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The Handbook of Road Safety Measures
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ISBN: 978-1-84855-250-0

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Publication date: 14 October 2009

Rune Elvik, Alena Høye, Truls Vaa and Michael Sørensen

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The Handbook of Road Safety Measures
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ISBN: 978-1-84855-250-0

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