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Publication date: 1 March 1992

Nigel Norman

Information has become a strategic resource, a factor of production along with land, labour and capital. In some ways it rivals the money form as vector of value and means to…

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Information has become a strategic resource, a factor of production along with land, labour and capital. In some ways it rivals the money form as vector of value and means to power and influence in the new order. Narrowing the definition of information to mean a use‐value which conveys knowledge about the world and excluding bits, bytes and digitized transactions such as money transfer, brings us to the dynamic, booming “tradeable information” sector of the economy. This new area of growth can be seen as the precursor, in embryonic form, of a new mode of production. Just as the spinning‐wheel and steam‐engine epitomize earlier phases of industrial development, so the computer and its network links to the outside may herald a new form of social organization, albeit coexisting within earlier modes for the forseeable future. The emerging informeconomy exists, of course, in the real world of market relations, recession and global corporations. The backdrop is the economic equivalent of World War III, where only the toughest survive, be it in steel, cars, electronics or agricultural commodities. Where do libraries and information centres fit into this picture? Do we stand in relation to this process like the declining corner‐shop of the information world, confronted with the rise of the super‐, mega‐ and hypermarket? In the world of privatized consumption, “spectacular” domination, will the still small voice of humanistic culture survive?

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New Library World, vol. 93 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 June 1994

Susan L. Adkins

As CD‐ROM becomes more and more a standard reference and technicalsupport tool in all types of libraries, the annual review of thistechnology published in Computers in Libraries

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As CD‐ROM becomes more and more a standard reference and technical support tool in all types of libraries, the annual review of this technology published in Computers in Libraries magazine increases in size and scope. This year, author Susan L. Adkins has prepared this exceptionally useful bibliography which she has cross‐referenced with a subject index.

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OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, vol. 10 no. 2
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ISSN: 1065-075X

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Publication date: 1 May 1986

RUTH KERNS

A country no stronger than its information As a result of the new Gramm‐Rudman‐Hollings law which mandates a balanced federal budget by 1991 (a cut of $9.9m), and an $8.4 in…

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A country no stronger than its information As a result of the new Gramm‐Rudman‐Hollings law which mandates a balanced federal budget by 1991 (a cut of $9.9m), and an $8.4 in budget reduction by Congress, the Library of Congress is suffering a total cutback of 7.6% from last year. This means a loss of $1 in every $13. The total number of hours open will be reduced by 30% per week; evening and weekend hours by 59%. The Library will be unable to purchase some 80 000 new books.

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New Library World, vol. 87 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 November 1953

P.R. Payne

Based fundamentally on the ‘Energy Method’ approach to helicopter performance calculation, a method is presented for calculating performance of a design in the project stage. In…

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Based fundamentally on the ‘Energy Method’ approach to helicopter performance calculation, a method is presented for calculating performance of a design in the project stage. In another form, less suitable for project work, the equations have been used for performance estimation by the writer for several years. They were found to give better agreement with flight test and rotor tower results than any other method tried. It is believed that the method gives quicker and more accurate results for project work than any so far developed.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 25 no. 11
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 1 January 1995

Tony Benn

The UKOLUG Annual Lecture at Online Information 94 was given by the Rt. Hon. Tony Benn — former Labour Member of Parliament for Bristol and now for Chesterfield, veteran Labour…

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The UKOLUG Annual Lecture at Online Information 94 was given by the Rt. Hon. Tony Benn — former Labour Member of Parliament for Bristol and now for Chesterfield, veteran Labour politician, Postmaster General and Technology Minister in previous Labour governments, amongst other positions. Information is the one natural resource that is growing at an exponential rate when every other natural resource is decreasing: fossil fuels, coal and oil. Information is growing and what has happened, is happening and will happen will completely transform the world and the lives of everyone who lives in it.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 13 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 1 March 1932

ON another page of this issue will be found a description of a novel arrangement of the tail surfaces of an aeroplane which we have christened the “Vee Tail.” Known in Poland, the…

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ON another page of this issue will be found a description of a novel arrangement of the tail surfaces of an aeroplane which we have christened the “Vee Tail.” Known in Poland, the country of its origin, as an “oblique empennage,” it is, in fact, in the form shown, simply a pair of horizontal surfaces, fixed and moving, set at a positive dihedral angle of about 30 deg. to each other. In itself there would be nothing particularly remarkable in this, but the significant point of the arrangement is that it dispenses with the fin and rudder, there being no vertical surfaces at all.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 4 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 1 November 1936

EVERY day, in every way, aeronautics becomes more and more abstruse. We imagine that very few of our readers but shared our own ignorance of the extreme complication of the new…

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EVERY day, in every way, aeronautics becomes more and more abstruse. We imagine that very few of our readers but shared our own ignorance of the extreme complication of the new regulations introduced by the Federation Aéronautique Internationale covering attempts on altitude records. There are even, doubtless, many who, like ourselves, were not even aware that new regulations had been introduced. This is only one of the many examples that could be quoted of the increasing specialization that is gradually encompassing, we had almost written “smothering,” aviation. The day of the individual with encyclopaedic knowledge is long since departed. It seems strange now to recall the days when it was possible to visit, say, Brooklands and watch some pilot, such as Hawker, climb into the cockpit of his machine with a recording barograph on his knee, or suspended by a cord round his neck, and gradually disappear into the blue until his machine became a speck just visible through binoculars. To watch the aeroplane gradually get larger and larger as it circled round and slowly came down to land on the precise spot from which it had taken off a few minutes earlier. To rush up to the pilot and almost snatch the barograph from his hands in order to read the height attained, which was duly announced as the new record.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 8 no. 11
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 1 October 1948

WE have already given particulars of the post‐war organization of the Netherlands aircraft industry in Aircraft Engineering: how the types to be produced are decided upon by a…

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WE have already given particulars of the post‐war organization of the Netherlands aircraft industry in Aircraft Engineering: how the types to be produced are decided upon by a board, the Nederlands Instituut voor Vliegtuigontwikkeling, and are then developed and built by the factories of the centralized company N.V. Verenigde Nederlandse Vliegtuigfabrieken ‘Fokker’, consisting of the works of Fokker, Aviolanda and de Schelde. This arrangement was adopted in order to avoid duplication and also to allow the State to help toward the high cost of the development of the modern prototype.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 20 no. 10
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ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 1 April 1932

THE article published in this issue on the installing and installation‐testing of the Rolls‐Royce “R” engine fitted in the Supermarine S.6 B. seaplane, which made the Schneider…

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THE article published in this issue on the installing and installation‐testing of the Rolls‐Royce “R” engine fitted in the Supermarine S.6 B. seaplane, which made the Schneider Trophy the permanent property of Great Britain and also set up a new world's speed record, is of far more than mere historical interest.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 4 no. 4
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ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 1 September 1936

IT is not only feminine attire that is subject to the vagaries of fashion. Anyone who has watched the evolution of the aeroplane over any considerable period of time will have…

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IT is not only feminine attire that is subject to the vagaries of fashion. Anyone who has watched the evolution of the aeroplane over any considerable period of time will have noticed how subject it also is to the dictates of Fashion's decrees. Springing up from no one quite knows where, one suddenly becomes conscious that there has been a subtle change in the appearance of the aeroplanes seen about. There are always, of course, a few “ frumps ” whose type remains readily recognisable owing to its resemblance to its parents and ancestors. But it is none the less the fact that at any given period the bulk of the aeroplanes of the day have a similarity of appearance. This is indeed a constantly recurring pitfall for the enthusiast who for one reason or another does not have the opportunity of making very frequent visits to an aerodrome. On one of the rare occasions when he makes his presence felt he is apt to incur the contempt of his more knowledgeable colleagues by an unfortunate propensity for confusing the aeroplanes produced by the designers of different, and perhaps closely rival, firms. The position in this respect seems to get worse. Twenty‐five years ago no one but the veriest ignoramus could mistake a Blriot, say, for a Farman or an Antoinette. Nowadays, however, it is comparatively easy— or so we confess we find it—to be confused about the make of half a dozen different types of aeroplane. A few years ago it still remained easy at any rate to segregate machines by the eye into their respective classes. There was a stateliness, possibly even a suspicion of clumsiness, about a bomber which distinguished it instantly from a fighter. But even this superficial distinction is nowadays denied to those unfortunates of whom we write.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 8 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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