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DURING September 17-20, the twenty-third annual conference of Aslib was held at Ashorne Hill, near Leamington Spa. This Conference resumed, for the first time since 1938, Aslib‘s residential conferences, which, with the fast-expanding number of special librarians and information officers, are essential if the old and experienced members are to mix informally and discuss the difficulties of the younger and comparatively inexperienced information officers. Some idea of the extent to which this is necessary is given by the growth of Aslib‘s membership : 1,010 on June 30, 1948 ; 827 in 1947; and 712 in 1946. At the beginning of the War it was less than 300. Of the total, research associations and learned societies account for 33 per cent, industrial and commercial organisations 20 per cent, individuals 22 per cent, overseas members 17 per cent, and British Government Departments 8 per cent. These figures give some idea of the extent to which the information officer and special librarian have become essential members of any well-conducted, modern research establishment and progressive industrial concern.
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EVANS, I. Twenty-Third Annual Conference of Aslib. Nature 162, 862–864 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162862a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162862a0