EXPERT AND LAYMAN IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY:PROBLEMS OF COMMUNICATIONS AND FUNCTION The Third Aslib Annual Lecture Available to Purchase

As a past President and present friend of Aslib, I count it a pleasure as well as an honour to be invited to give an Aslib lecture. The subject that I have chosen—the relations of expert and layman in contemporary society—will, I hope, commend itself as being at once highly topical and highly controversial.