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AT the conference in Manchester on May 8 arranged by the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux to discuss industrial information services, a statement regarding the proposed formation of a Northern Branch of the Association was made by Mr. R. Brightman, librarian, Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., Dyestuffs Division, and chairman of the provisional committee formed early in the year for that purpose. The desire of many members of the Association for regular meetings in the northern area, as well as for a conference in that area, has been frequently expressed at recent annual conferences ; and in view of the fact that a heavy proportion of the industrial membership of the Association is concentrated in an area lying north and west of a line drawn roughly from the Humber through Nottingham, Leicester, Birmingham to Bristol, the Committee has in mind something much wider than the mere revival of the Lancashire and Cheshire Branch which functioned during the period 1931-36. The committee contemplates, instead of a series of meetings in any one town, a programme of meetings in different centres, preferably not more than a couple of meetings in the year, which might be arranged in such places as Manchester, Liverpool, Harrogate, Keighley, Nottingham, etc., and cover subjects meeting the needs of the works' librarian in particular. It is hoped that the Branch will keep in close touch with such developments as the lectures on classification and cataloguing arranged at the College of Technology, Manchester, by the North-Western Branch of the Library Association, and other developments which may provide training for those entering on a career of librarianship in industry.
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Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux: Northern Branch. Nature 157, 798 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157798c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/157798c0