ASLIB PROCEEDINGS: incorporating Aslib Information

Aslib's third conference on business records will be held on Thursday nth May in the Connaught Rooms, Great Queen Street, London, WC2. The special purpose of this conference is to stimulate active interest in the importance of correspondence as a basic source of information. There is evidence that control of correspondence is still one of the major administrative difficulties in organizations of all types. The programme, which has been planned by representatives of Aslib, the British Institute of Management, the Institute of Office Management, the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, and H.M. Treasury (O & M Division), will fall into four parts: i, an introductory paper discussing the subject from the administrative point of view; ii, a survey of procedures, based on a questionnaire recently sent to a representative selection of Aslib members; iii, a paper on training personnel for business records work; and iv, a summary of the proceedings with special reference to the problem of who should control correspondence records. The Chairman will be Miss Barbara Kyle, Assistant Director, National Book League, and among the speakers there will be Dr C. H. Thompson, Records Officer, National Coal Board; Mr Wilfred Ashworth, Librarian and Information Officer, British Nylon Spinners Ltd; and Mr L. H. Bunker, H.M. Treasury (O & M Division).