ASLIB PROCEEDINGS: incorporating Aslib Information Available to Purchase

In response to increased demands from members for short courses on all aspects of information work, a greatly extended programme of courses, totalling something approaching 130 days, is being planned for 1968. Apart from providing established courses more frequently a number of new ones will be offered: details of those planned for the first quarter of the year will be found in the list on page 398 and it is hoped to include courses on the general problems of introducing mechanization into library and information systems and on more detailed aspects of mechanization such as systems analysis. Courses on the handling and exploitation of special materials will include one on maps, an advanced course on patents and an advanced course on business information. A number of courses are being planned jointly with Aslib Groups and with other bodies, and advance details of these will appear in subsequent issues.