INTRODUCTION

Though the title on our cover implies no startling novelty, this first issue of Aslib Proceedings: incorporating Aslib Information is, nevertheless, a step of some significance in the publication of Aslib's periodicals. From now on, the quarterly Aslib Proceedings and the members' monthly news‐sheet Aslib Information will cease to be published separately. Instead, the papers, news notes, lists of recent articles and Aslib library accessions which have hitherto appeared in them, together with certain other types of material for which Aslib has had no suitable publication medium, will be brought together in this new monthly periodical. This, as befits a record of papers read at Aslib meetings and a chronicle of the plans and activities of all of Aslib's component parts, is visualized as a service common to members of all categories and one of the principal links between them.