JOAN FRIEDMAN and ALAN JEFFREYS
As we indicated in the first part of this study, the second part was to be a cost analysis of cataloguing and classification, comprising a picture of the activities in the…
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As we indicated in the first part of this study, the second part was to be a cost analysis of cataloguing and classification, comprising a picture of the activities in the libraries—the division of labour, the distinction, if any, between professional and non‐professional work, the grades and salaries of staff employed on the various tasks, and the amount of time spent on each. It should be made clear at the outset that no detailed cost analysis was attempted, but we hope to have given a general picture of the amount of time spent on cataloguing and classification in relation to certain other tasks in the libraries covered by our survey.
Economics and political philosophy tend to lead separate existences in separate university departments. This paper argues that there are gains to be had in the understanding of…
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Economics and political philosophy tend to lead separate existences in separate university departments. This paper argues that there are gains to be had in the understanding of the teaching of economics if the intellectual divide between these disciplines is bridged. The history of economic thought owes its evolution in part to responses at particular points in time to the enduring questions of political philosophy. A more deep‐seated understanding of economics and of HET is therefore available if considered in conscious alliance with the history of political philosophy (HPP). In short, the argument of this paper ‐ which considers five dimensions of the interdependence of HET and HPP ‐ is the reverse of Scott Gordon’s conclusion that economists have little or nothing to learn from philosophers.
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JOAN FRIEDMAN and ALAN JEFFREYS
A survey was made by questionnaire of cataloguing and classification in fifty‐one university libraries. The returned questionnaires revealed many, differences in the…
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A survey was made by questionnaire of cataloguing and classification in fifty‐one university libraries. The returned questionnaires revealed many, differences in the classification systems, cataloguing codes, and filing rules used, as well as in the kind and amount of detail in a catalogue entry. There were wide variations in the estimates by libraries of the annual output of a hypothetical ‘average’ cataloguer. There was little uniformity in the statistical data collected by libraries of the work of their cataloguing departments. Little use was made of existing centralized cataloguing services and reasons for this are suggested. More study of user's catalogue needs is necessary. The problems of standardization must be resolved if mechanized techniques are to be fully exploited.
Melanie T. Benson and Peter Willett
The purpose of this paper is to describe the historical development of library and information science (LIS) teaching and research in the University of Sheffield's Information…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to describe the historical development of library and information science (LIS) teaching and research in the University of Sheffield's Information School since its founding in 1963.
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The history is based on published materials, unpublished school records, and semi-structured interviews with 19 current or ex-members of staff.
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The School has grown steadily over its first half-century, extending the range of its teaching from conventional programmes in librarianship and information science to include cognate programmes in areas such as health informatics, information systems and multi-lingual information management.
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There are very few published accounts of the history of LIS departments.
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Clive Bingley, Edwin Fleming and Kate Hills
SINCE THEY ARE now in possession of a modest amount of my own money each year, it was with more attention than I have devoted in the past to its predecessors that I studied the…
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SINCE THEY ARE now in possession of a modest amount of my own money each year, it was with more attention than I have devoted in the past to its predecessors that I studied the Library Association's balance‐sheet as at December 31 1979, which is printed in the June issue of the Record.
The concept of shared cataloguing is by no means new. Library literature over the past 120 years is studded with attempts to show the wastefulness of individual cataloguing and…
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The concept of shared cataloguing is by no means new. Library literature over the past 120 years is studded with attempts to show the wastefulness of individual cataloguing and the virtues of systems of shared cataloguing, called in the past centralized or co‐operative cataloguing.
F.H. AYRES, JANICE GERMAN, N. LOUKES and R.H. SEARLE
Details are given of a survey carried out in a large scientific special library on the comparative accuracy of the author and title information which the user brings to the…
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Details are given of a survey carried out in a large scientific special library on the comparative accuracy of the author and title information which the user brings to the catalogue. The sample was restricted to requests for book material. The results are analysed in detail and show the title to be more accurate. Some suggestions are made for extending this type of survey.
I am not sure whether I was asked to give this paper as an innovator, a researcher and developer, or a user. If I claim to have some elements of all three, this presumably…
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I am not sure whether I was asked to give this paper as an innovator, a researcher and developer, or a user. If I claim to have some elements of all three, this presumably exonerates me from having to be expert at any one of them. I should perhaps say that I see all three as closely interlinked: for me, at any rate, all worthwhile library and information research has arisen out of strictly practical problems, which present knowledge is inadequate to solve; and these problems occur to one as a librarian trying to give an adequate service within various economic, social and political constraints—the definition of an adequate service being arrived at by seeing the library through the consumer's eyes, and by using it oneself as a consumer.
Investigates ways in which computer technology can enable peoplewith a hearing and/or speech impairment to communicate. These range fromtelecommunication devices for the deaf…
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Investigates ways in which computer technology can enable people with a hearing and/or speech impairment to communicate. These range from telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDDs) to software designed to teach deaf children how to read and write in English (often their second language!). Other new technology includes software that converts English into American Sign Language vocabulary, and under development is a system which will facilitate communication between a hearing person and a person with a combination of hearing/visual or hearing/speech impairment.
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