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Publication date: 1 December 1957

S.T. BROAD

After such an inspiring address by Sir Edward Boyle and the brilliant lecture by Lord Verulam I am really left rather breathless and I expect your capacity for taking any more is…

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After such an inspiring address by Sir Edward Boyle and the brilliant lecture by Lord Verulam I am really left rather breathless and I expect your capacity for taking any more is almost negligible.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 9 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 January 1958

P.P. LOVE

This morning Mr. Broad gave a clear picture of the scope and organization of a technical library service, and Lord Verulam and Dr. Topping have shown the part played by a library…

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This morning Mr. Broad gave a clear picture of the scope and organization of a technical library service, and Lord Verulam and Dr. Topping have shown the part played by a library in the field of education. We shall now examine the prospects of co‐operation between technical colleges and local industry on library services.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 10 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 November 1960

The theme of the thirty‐fifth Annual Conference of ASLIB, held at Brighton from 28th to 30th September, was ‘Research in Special Library and Information Work’. Because of his…

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The theme of the thirty‐fifth Annual Conference of ASLIB, held at Brighton from 28th to 30th September, was ‘Research in Special Library and Information Work’. Because of his sudden illness Lord Verulam was unfortunately unable to give his Presidential address. In his place, at very short notice, Professor. J. D. Bernal gave a talk on the importance of all library and information centres being organised with the user in mind. The idea of storing information, of collecting publications to preserve thereby the history of scientific knowledge on any subject was not the purpose of the library and information units run by members of ASLIB. Their aim was to be part — and a very valuable part —of the communication system whereby the latest knowledge was fed to the research worker.

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Education + Training, vol. 2 no. 11
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 December 1957

LORD VERULAM

A month or two ago, when Mr. Wilson first asked me to undertake this assignment and to deliver this paper, I was naturally fearful of what might lie before me. Was I expected to…

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A month or two ago, when Mr. Wilson first asked me to undertake this assignment and to deliver this paper, I was naturally fearful of what might lie before me. Was I expected to criticize present trends in technical education, at a moment when the nation is crying out for more of it? Should I be urging the claims of a liberal education in a den of technological lions? At least it is a comfort to find this morning that the lions, and their den, look amiable enough; some of you at least appear to have been weighed on some bathroom balance and not found wanting.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 9 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 February 1960

BARBARA KYLE

The Chairman said that he was present that afternoon like a god out of a machine, but not claiming divinity. He had spent the morning at an engineering firm and, because of…

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The Chairman said that he was present that afternoon like a god out of a machine, but not claiming divinity. He had spent the morning at an engineering firm and, because of economic matters, he regretted he had been unable to hear the words of wisdom and disagreement that had been expressed at the morning session. Somehow, he had to sum them up at a quarter past four, but he would be guided for the next hour and a half or so by the questions and answers flying to and fro like sparks amongst the stubble. To steer both the questions and the repartee there could be no better person than Miss Barbara Kyle, who was to be the Panel Master or Question Master. He proposed to hand over to her now, and she would carry on until he himself took over again at the end.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 12 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 July 1918

At a great demonstration which took place on July 13th, in Trafalgar Square, the following resolution, moved by SIR ALEXANDER BANNERMAN, was unanimously carried:—

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At a great demonstration which took place on July 13th, in Trafalgar Square, the following resolution, moved by SIR ALEXANDER BANNERMAN, was unanimously carried:—

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British Food Journal, vol. 20 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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Publication date: 1 April 1961

IT is difficult to prevent oneself from being submerged beneath the flood of writing that pours so endlessly upon us today, and almost impossible to evaluate much of it. The…

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IT is difficult to prevent oneself from being submerged beneath the flood of writing that pours so endlessly upon us today, and almost impossible to evaluate much of it. The consequence is that material of real worth is often overlooked, to our serious loss. I am not thinking so much of the bound volume, for reviews and publishers' notices bring it to our attention.

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Work Study, vol. 10 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

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Publication date: 1 July 1960

ONLY as events recede can we view them in proper perspective. It is then that we discover how often initial judgments were wrong, our fears con‐founded or our hopes dispelled…

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ONLY as events recede can we view them in proper perspective. It is then that we discover how often initial judgments were wrong, our fears con‐founded or our hopes dispelled. Treaties to end wars, pacts of eternal friendship and alliance are the debris which litter our uneasy world.

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Work Study, vol. 9 no. 7
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ISSN: 0043-8022

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Publication date: 1 January 1916

In wishing our readers the good things they desire and hope the New Year will bring, we cannot help recalling again the unusual character of the days in which the year opens. For…

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In wishing our readers the good things they desire and hope the New Year will bring, we cannot help recalling again the unusual character of the days in which the year opens. For all men it is a testing time; to many one of straitened means, trial and loss. Circumstances are changed, and dear ones are absent, and our hearts look forward with a sense of heightened responsibility but of undiminished confidence in our Cause and Country. As librarians we must not complain too loudly, even though realising that much of the difficulty that is being introduced into the efficient carrying on of a National Library arises from the mental constitution of the ordinary British man of business, who (whatever may be his own practice) often does honestly think that reading is a concession to idleness and that books are luxuries which may be easily dispensed with. We must endeavour to take a broad view of the position. National financial circumstances make retrenchment of some kind necessary in every department of public service, and the least we can do is to show a disposition to save money wherever it is possible to do so, even at the expense of those activities which have strengthened and widened the sphere of the public library in the last decade.

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New Library World, vol. 18 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 May 1907

THE scientist and philosopher will tell us that the mind of man cannot in a lifetime fully grasp and understand any one subject. Consequently it is unreasonable to expect that the…

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THE scientist and philosopher will tell us that the mind of man cannot in a lifetime fully grasp and understand any one subject. Consequently it is unreasonable to expect that the librarian—who, in spite of popular belief, is but man—can have a complete understanding of every department of knowledge relative to his work. He must, in common with his fellows in other callings, content himself with a more or less general professional knowledge, and may specialize, if he be so disposed, in certain branches of that knowledge. The more restricted this particular knowledge is, the greater will be its value from a specialistic point of view.

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New Library World, vol. 9 no. 11
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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