Five leading abstracts services in the field of documentation were inspected. A measure of their coverage was obtained by matching the items of a bibliography against each service. All abstracts published by these services in 1964 were counted and ranked to estimate the scope of each service, to...

During 1968 Aslib and the Library Association agreed to collaborate in the production of a new abstracts service, starting in 1969, to cover their combined areas of interest. Two issues of Library and Information Science Abstracts have now appeared and though this brief note of progress may...

A brief review of progress made by the Ministry of Public Building and Works in its programme of studies on data co‐ordination in the broad areas of a preferred vocabulary, classification categories, conventions, a central commodity file, procedures and codes.

With the thirteenth issue affected by the recent postal strike, now seems an opportune moment to take a look at the performance of LISA in its first two years. This bi‐monthly abstracts service succeeded the former Library Science Abstracts in 1969 as a joint venture between the Library...

This conference is an information system—you are the users and I am one of the documents that has been retrieved by the system operators. Each of you will ‘read’ up to six documents and will, I hope, discuss them with each other. The cost to each one of you is the £14 conference fee plus...

When I was asked to give this paper, I was unaware that the title of the Conference was ‘Words and Meaning’. While I warmly welcome this theme, I must admit that it gave me rather abruptly a feeling of nervous awareness of the problem of associating words with meaning. I began to read things...

Adapting to change is never easy, particularly when everything is moving so fast that one has less and less time to devote to thinking about the transition process. We are all rather like white water canoeists: carried on rapid waters in a small and fragile boat — in danger of being either...

Consultancy in the West is relatively big business. In 1991, the top 25 European consulting firms earned over £2,000 million. In 1992, income earned in the UK alone by the top 25 topped £1,000 million; and a surprisingly high number of consultancies were untouched by the recession. Some even...