ASLIB PROCEEDINGS: incorporating Aslib Information Available to Purchase

Evening Course on handling Russian Literature A course of lectures on handling Soviet and East European literature will be held at Aslib from 28th September to 16th November, inclusive, on Thursdays from 6.30 to 8 p.m. The lecturer will be Mr Anthony Thompson, M.A., F.L.A., who was the Aslib delegate to libraries in the USSR in January 1960. The course will enable students to become familiar with the Russian alphabet, to transliterate, and to recognize the more common Russian bibliographic terms and scientific words. Other East European languages will be dealt with more briefly. The course also covers the organization of publication and bibliography in the Soviet Union and sources of supply of Russian material in Great Britain. The fee for the course will be 6 guineas. An application form is enclosed with this issue.