Association for Information Management

ASLIB, the Association for Information Management is a defunct British association of special libraries and information centers. 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]

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:

  • ASLIB Proceedings: New Information Perspectives[3]
  • Journal of Documentation
  • 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).
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See also
  • Cranfield Experiments

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.
  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).

Further reading
  • Muddiman, D. (2005). A new history of ASLIB, 1924-1950. Journal of Documentation, 61(3), 402-428.
  • Nicholas, D. & Rowlands, I. (2008). ASLIB Proceedings is 60 years old. ASLIB Proceedings, 60(4), 289-289.
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