In beginning its work at the end of the 1950s, the Aslib Research and Development Department inevitably faced the task of identifying the most significant problems for investigation, at the same time having the need to establish appropriate experimental techniques. Most of the projects...

‘The value of bibliography has only been noticeably increased to the extent that the needs of the times call more pressingly than ever before for rearrangement of the economics of intellectual work. The final result is that the method of doing bibliographic work must be regulated so that the...