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THE Proceedings of the British Society for International Bibliography, Parts 1 and 2, contain the papers and discussions at the twenty-second and twenty-third ordinary meetings on March 5 and April 23 last, respectively. In Part 1, Miss M. Shaw's paper “Documentation in an Industrial Laboratory” describes the library and information service in the laboratories of Messrs. J. Lyons and Co., Ltd. The function of this library is to keep the chemical staff supplied with the most recent scientific and technical literature, to see that this is adequately catalogued and indexed, and to supply information, as well as prepare bibliographies and translations. Any books borrowed must be in the laboratories during the day so that they are available for reference if required. With regard to abstracting, the actual reading of the periodicals and selection of matter to be indexed is carried out by the chemists themselves, the periodicals concerned being issued to the sections of the laboratory in turn, for periods of 2-3 days, and 7 days for the final section, which is responsible for noting anything missed by other sections. Indexing is carried out daily in the library before re-issuing a periodical. For copying scientific papers, the Lumiere -Van der Grinten diazo process is used and has given very satisfactory results since July 1938.
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Documentation and Microfilm. Nature 150, 601 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150601b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/150601b0