Aslib Proceedings: Volume 27 Issue 7
Table of contents
A World Information System for the social sciences
Ralph AdamA summary of the report of the Unesco meeting of experts on the problems and strategies of incorporating the social sciences into the world science information system (UNISIST) is…
Who does the work? Observing library activities
Pauline A. ThomasWho does what is a deceptively simple question with which to begin an analysis of library operations. An answering comment on a questionnaire I used recently was that ‘some people…
Cases in financial management
Richard DobbinsReaders are invited to study three cases in finance and accounting and compare their own proposals with solutions suggested by the writer. Case 1 is a capital budgeting problem…
Draft Definitions: information and library needs, wants, demands and uses: a comment
Norman RobertsInformation science has existed in an uneasy, suspended, state of becoming for an uncomfortable number of years. Yet, despite a stubborn refusal to be born whole, hope for the…