SELECTIVE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION USING A KDF9 COMPUTER Available to Purchase

Many libraries in research organizations and in industry operate current awareness services of one kind or another, ranging from the circulation of copies of periodicals to the publication of information bulletins and the personal notification of items of interest to individuals. In the latter case the subject interests of users are recorded and the information staff, when scanning the incoming literature, use these records to match users' interests to documentary input.