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Publication date: 1 January 1954

Aarhus Kommunes Biblioteker (Teknisk Bibliotek), Ingerslevs Plads 7, Aarhus, Denmark. Representative: V. NEDERGAARD PEDERSEN (Librarian).

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Aarhus Kommunes Biblioteker (Teknisk Bibliotek), Ingerslevs Plads 7, Aarhus, Denmark. Representative: V. NEDERGAARD PEDERSEN (Librarian).

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 6 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 April 1949

It has often been said that a great part of the strength of Aslib lies in the fact that it brings together those whose experience has been gained in many widely differing fields…

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It has often been said that a great part of the strength of Aslib lies in the fact that it brings together those whose experience has been gained in many widely differing fields but who have a common interest in the means by which information may be collected and disseminated to the greatest advantage. Lists of its members have, therefore, a more than ordinary value since they present, in miniature, a cross‐section of institutions and individuals who share this special interest.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 1 no. 4
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Publication date: 1 January 1963

L.G. PATRICK

Miss L.V. Paulin, M.A., F.L.A., County Librarian of Hertfordshire and Chairman of the Library Association Education Committee, opened the meeting and introduced Mr Patrick, who as…

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Miss L.V. Paulin, M.A., F.L.A., County Librarian of Hertfordshire and Chairman of the Library Association Education Committee, opened the meeting and introduced Mr Patrick, who as a special librarian and one closely concerned with the drawing up of the new Library Association Examination syllabus was, she felt, a fortunate choice of speaker. About one hundred members of Aslib attended the meeting.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 15 no. 1
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Publication date: 1 March 1964

At the April meeting Mr Jack Bird, M.A., F.L.A., Education Officer of Aslib, will speak on ‘Taking stock—a fresh look at education for special librarians in an age of expansion’…

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At the April meeting Mr Jack Bird, M.A., F.L.A., Education Officer of Aslib, will speak on ‘Taking stock—a fresh look at education for special librarians in an age of expansion’. The Chair will be taken by Mr L. G. Patrick, F.L.A., Librarian, Aluminium Laboratories Ltd. The meeting will be held on Wednes‐day 22nd April at 3 Belgrave Square at 5.30 p.m. Tea will be served at 5 o'clock.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 16 no. 3
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Publication date: 1 July 1964

JACK BIRD and L.G. Patrick

Rather more than a year ago, on 26th November 1962, Mr Patrick read to an Aslib evening meeting a paper entitled ‘Some implications of the new Library Association syllabus from…

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Rather more than a year ago, on 26th November 1962, Mr Patrick read to an Aslib evening meeting a paper entitled ‘Some implications of the new Library Association syllabus from the special library viewpoint’. The situation which he discussed there was known to be causing some concern to special librarians. The new Library Association examination syllabus gave students far more opportunity to specialize than had ever been possible before, and to this extent it went a long way to meeting the demands that special librarians had been voicing for many years. But as the arrangements for teaching it became known, many aspects of them seemed likely to cause difficulty to special libraries. In future the main emphasis of professional library education was to be on full‐time study, and the majority of recruits to the profession were expected to go to library school straight from school or university without previous experience of work in a library. What part‐time instruction was available would mainly be organized on a day‐release basis, instead of evening classes as in the past. Furthermore, owing to the difficulty of providing instruction in the wide choice of alternative papers proposed, it was expected that teaching would be concentrated in a small number of library schools. As a consequence of this it was anticipated that libraries would reorganize their staffs so as to separate professional from non‐professional duties, and there were plans—far from definite at this stage—for a separate Library Assistant's Certificate to cater for the training of non‐professional staff. For a number of reasons it was feared that these arrangements would hit special libraries particularly hard. There seemed little prospect that libraries would be able, under the proposed arrangements, to recruit staff with the scientific knowledge or the familiarity with industry which many special librarians felt to be essential. It seemed quite out of the question that the majority of special libraries would ever be able to release staff for full‐time education, and for very small libraries, which were known to be numerous, even day‐release presented almost insuperable difficulties. Moreover, in these same small libraries, the separation of professional and non‐professional duties was also difficult, and many special librarians felt that it would be difficult to organize work if the supply of librarians in training were to dry up. The discussion that was aroused by Mr Patrick's paper, both at the meeting and in correspondence after, made it clear that the doubts and fears about the new syllabus were widely held by members of Aslib, although there were also those who held that these doubts were largely based on misunderstandings, and that when the new arrangements came into operation it would be found that special libraries would not suffer. The Aslib Education Committee decided that more concrete information on the actual situation in special libraries was needed, and so it was decided to send to all members a questionnaire designed not only to find out what special librarians felt about the new arrangements but also to assess as far as possible what would be the actual effect of the new arrangements on member libraries and their existing staffs. Accordingly a questionnaire was drafted and tested, and sent to all members in the summer of 1963.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 16 no. 7
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Publication date: 1 January 1964

Nearly 300 people attended the 37th Annual Conference, held at the University of St Andrews. The Conference was formally opened by the Chairman of Council, Mr L. G. Patrick

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Nearly 300 people attended the 37th Annual Conference, held at the University of St Andrews. The Conference was formally opened by the Chairman of Council, Mr L. G. Patrick, Librarian of Aluminium Laboratories Ltd, who read the following letter from the President, Lord Shackleton:

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 16 no. 1
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Publication date: 1 April 1956

C.W. HANSON

Scientific and technical periodicals are read soon after publication by individuals, for their own enlightenment. In addition to these ‘personal’ users, periodicals have what I…

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Scientific and technical periodicals are read soon after publication by individuals, for their own enlightenment. In addition to these ‘personal’ users, periodicals have what I shall call ‘institutional’ users—librarians, information officers, abstractors—who use them, maybe years after publication, mainly on behalf of others. These ‘institutional’ users find that for their purposes, which are slightly different from those of the ‘personal’ users, many periodicals are inconvenient to use in some, mostly minor, respects. My purpose is to ask editors and publishers to help ‘institutional’ readers by adopting a number of small changes, few of which would involve appreciable cost and none of which would lessen the value of their publications to ‘personal’ readers. They have been asked before—notably by Dr. V. E. Parke and Mr. L. G. Patrick in their papers at the 1947 annual Aslib Conference, and by Dr. Wilfrid Bonser many years earlier. I am, to a large extent, merely repeating and emphasizing their pleas. The requests I have to make may appear trivial: so they are. That is why it seems absurd that some, at least, should not have been adopted before now, and that it should still be necessary to put them forward.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 8 no. 4
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Publication date: 1 September 1973

L.G. Patrick

Too often in the past we have been content with vocational training in technical skills; this contentment both arose from and helped to give rise to relatively static situations…

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Too often in the past we have been content with vocational training in technical skills; this contentment both arose from and helped to give rise to relatively static situations. Today, when one of our greatest certainties is the inevitability of change we need ‘to prepare individuals who will be not only competent to perform and manage the present systems but who, through their educational experience, will have the necessary insight, imagination and habits of mind, needed to improve and to enhance the system by adapting and advancing it to meet its future requirements’ (P. Wasserman). Within the last decade the provision of facilities for education and qualification in librarianship has broadened and diversified to a degree which is complex, not to say confusing. This variety of provision is to be commended and is both natural and correct for our present situation. Today it is impossible to set down one definitive pattern of education for librarianship and regard it as the ideal. It is improbable that a curriculum could be agreed by all and not everything important in education appears in a curriculum.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 25 no. 9
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Publication date: 1 April 1956

Sir Raymond Streat, C.B.E., Director of The Cotton Board, Manchester, accompanied by Lady Streat. A Vice‐President: F. C. Francis, M.A., F.S.A., Keeper of the Department of…

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Sir Raymond Streat, C.B.E., Director of The Cotton Board, Manchester, accompanied by Lady Streat. A Vice‐President: F. C. Francis, M.A., F.S.A., Keeper of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum. Honorary Treasurer: J. E. Wright, Institution of Electrical Engineers. Honorary Secretary: Mrs. J. Lancaster‐Jones, B.Sc., Science Librarian, British Council. Chairman of Council: Miss Barbara Kyle, Research Worker, Social Sciences Documentation. Director: Leslie Wilson, M.A.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 8 no. 4
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Publication date: 1 July 1930

WE write on the eve of an Annual Meeting of the Library Association. We expect many interesting things from it, for although it is not the first meeting under the new…

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WE write on the eve of an Annual Meeting of the Library Association. We expect many interesting things from it, for although it is not the first meeting under the new constitution, it is the first in which all the sections will be actively engaged. From a membership of eight hundred in 1927 we are, in 1930, within measurable distance of a membership of three thousand; and, although we have not reached that figure by a few hundreds—and those few will be the most difficult to obtain quickly—this is a really memorable achievement. There are certain necessary results of the Association's expansion. In the former days it was possible for every member, if he desired, to attend all the meetings; today parallel meetings are necessary in order to represent all interests, and members must make a selection amongst the good things offered. Large meetings are not entirely desirable; discussion of any effective sort is impossible in them; and the speakers are usually those who always speak, and who possess more nerve than the rest of us. This does not mean that they are not worth a hearing. Nevertheless, seeing that at least 1,000 will be at Cambridge, small sectional meetings in which no one who has anything to say need be afraid of saying it, are an ideal to which we are forced by the growth of our numbers.

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New Library World, vol. 33 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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