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Volume 25, Issue 8
1 August 1973
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Review Article| August 01 1973

The Scope for Operational Research in the Library and Information Field

Martin Elton;
Martin Elton
Communications Studies Group, Joint Unit for Planning Research, University College, London
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Brian Vickery
Brian Vickery
Assistant Director (Research), Aslib
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-3748
Print ISSN: 0001-253X
© MCB UP Limited
1973
Aslib Proceedings (1973) 25 (8): 305–319.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb050417

Operational research was born during the 1939–45 war as an aid to military decision making. After the war it was rapidly applied to industrial production, and many new techniques were developed. It has since spread to all spheres of policy making.

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