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ASLIB: The Association for Information Management (often stylized Aslib) was a British association of special libraries 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. Since 2015, ASLIB has existed only as Emerald's professional development arm. [1]

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Wartime documentation

ASLIB played a particular role in World War II obtaining journals and other documents from the Axis powers 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, microfilming expert, and with funding from some US foundations such as the Rockefeller Foundation, ASLIB set up a large microfilming service that was able to supply key publications to countries that had no other access to them. [2]

Publications

ASLIB published these journals:

From 1973, the Audiovisual Group of ASLIB, in conjunction with the Audiovisual Group of the Library Association, published:

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References

  1. Bawden, David (2016). "ASLIB: A de facto national library/information organization". Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues. 26 (1): 15–27. doi:10.7227/ALX.0038. S2CID   219983549.
  2. Richards, Pamela Spence (1989). "ASLIB at War: The Brief but Intrepid Career of a Library Organization as a Hub of AlliedScientific Intelligence 1942-1945". Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. 29 (4): 279–296. doi:10.2307/40323598. JSTOR   40323598.
  3. 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).

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