ASLIB: The Association for Information Management (often stylized ''Aslib'') was a British association of
special libraries
A special library is a library that provides specialized information resources on a particular subject, serves a specialized and limited clientele, and delivers specialized services to that clientele. Special libraries include corporate librari ...
and information centres. It was founded in England in 1924 as the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux. The organization ceased functioning as an independent organization in 2010, when it became a division of
Emerald Group Publishing
Emerald Publishing Limited is a scholarly publisher of academic journals and books in the fields of management, business, education, library studies, health care, and engineering.
History
Emerald was founded in the United Kingdom in 1967 as '' ...
. Since 2015, ASLIB has existed only as Emerald's professional development arm.
Wartime documentation
ASLIB played a particular role in
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
obtaining journals and other documents from the
Axis powers
The Axis powers, ; it, Potenze dell'Asse ; ja, 枢軸国 ''Sūjikukoku'', group=nb originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies. Its principal members were ...
countries. Many countries around the world lost access to the documentation of academic and scientific information during wartime. UK libraries were often able to obtain these documents through neutral European countries. With
Eugene Power
Eugene Barnum Power (June 4, 1905 – December 6, 1993) was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, founder of the modern microfilm industry, and pioneer in the use of microfilm for the reproduction of scholarly publications.
Life and career
...
, microfilming expert, and with funding from some US foundations such as the
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The second-oldest major philanthropic institution in America, after the Carneg ...
, ASLIB set up a large microfilming service that was able to supply key publications to countries that had no other access to them.
Publications
ASLIB published these journals:
* ASLIB Proceedings: New Information Perspectives
[First published 1955. The first volume included a paper by Edward G. Brisch on the Brisch classification ("Subject analysis in eighty-one concepts" in ''ASLIB Proceedings'' vol. 1 no. 3, 1955, pp. 157-162).]
*
Journal of Documentation
The ''Journal of Documentation'' is a double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal covering theories, concepts, models, frameworks, and philosophies in information science. The journal publishes scholarly articles, research reports, and critical rev ...
* Library Hi Tech News : incorporating Online and CD Notes
* Performance Measurement and Metrics
* Program: electronic library & information systems
* Records Management Journal
* Reference Reviews : incorporating ASLIB Book Guide
* ASLIB Directory of Information Sources in the United Kingdom (First published in 1928).
From 1973, the Audiovisual Group of ASLIB, in conjunction with the Audiovisual Group of the Library Association, published:
* The Audiovisual Librarian
See also
*
Cranfield Experiments
The Cranfield experiments were a series of experimental studies in information retrieval conducted by Cyril W. Cleverdon at the College of Aeronautics, today known as Cranfield University, in the 1960s to evaluate the efficiency of indexing syst ...
References
Further reading
*
*
External links
*
{{Authority control
Library associations in the United Kingdom
Defunct organisations based in the United Kingdom
Organizations disestablished in 2010