ASLIB INFORMATION DEPARTMENT: a statistical review over ten years

In the first quarter of 1951 the Aslib Information Department received 239 requests from members to borrow publications. In the ten years that have passed since then there has been an astonishing increase in the work of this department so that in the first quarter of 1960 there were 2,791 requests to borrow publications, received from members—more than a tenfold increase in this one type of work alone.