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Data Collection Using @Liberty
Authors: Kwan Millie
Published: March 2008

Many of us have used speadsheets like Lotus 1–2–3 to do statistical analyses, often using data collected from various sources. For example, to manage book approval plans, subject specialists at our library tabulate the approved, rejected, and firm orders, as well as keep track of encumbrances against the budget. Our collection development officer then collects the data from the subject specialists for analysis.
This Directory's Not Big Enuf fer Both of Us!
Authors: Rodriguez Diana , Maricic Steven J.
Published: March 2008

That's what the ILL and Cataloging Micro Enhancer software used to say to each other here at NJIT. We thought we were going to have a shootout at the M310 Workstation, with all the catalogers staring down all the interlibrary loan honchos. But that's before “Sheriff Batch File” rode into town and taught us that all we really had was a failure to communicate.
DOS‐tips
Authors: Bendig Mark
Published: March 2008

Oftentimes, a batch file will use the BASIC interpreter to run a BASIC program as part of its operation. Typically, the BASIC program will do some task that's difficult or impossible to do with just DOS commands like COPY and TYPE. Perhaps it conducts a dialog with the user to establish desired parameters before running an applications program. Or it may draw a fancy menu as part of a “DOS shell” system for users. Here's part of a batch file where a BASIC program is used to print out the current date in some special format:
Enhancing Terminal Software with DOS and Multiple Function Keys
Authors: Wisneski Martin E.
Published: March 2008

The Washburn University Law Library has been using the OCLC Terminal Software on an M300 Workstation for several years. We use the Terminal Software SaveScreen feature to copy to diskettes all records PRODUCEd or UPDATEd, so they can be used later for other purposes. Thus, it is often necessary to check disks for available storage space, to format new diskettes, and to backup SaveScreen disks. None of these activities can be performed from the Terminal Software and executing them from DOS requires that the staff be familiar with DOS commands. Also, before producing labels from the OCLC display, we configure our printer for double‐height, emphasized print mode. The Download Printer Commands feature of the Terminal Software doesn't work with our Okidata printer, nor does it save the command string for later use. Therefore, we developed a menu system as a convenient way to issue both DOS and printer commands.
Help Screens for OCLC Users
Authors: Welsch Erwin K.
Published: March 2008

As the number of Post‐It notes, “cheat sheets,” and other paper devices affixed to our PCs attest, infrequent users sometimes have difficulty remembering DOS commands and other micro‐related terms. When using a PC to access bibliographic services such as the OCLC system, the situation is complicated by the need to know logon procedures, command language structures, even how to exit the system(s). Although paper is functional, many of us have sought a way of preserving user‐friendly notes in a more easily accessible and, preferably, automatic form. A new book by Paul Somerson, an editor at PC Magazine, with an enclosed disk containing more than 200 utility programs, now makes it possible to provide a type of help screen that has been needed.
The Silent Treatment
Authors: Robinson David G.
Published: March 2008

Usually, the assorted beeps and tones coming from your computer's speaker are useful warnings or alerts. However, in the case of an otherwise useful program (read game), the programmer may have been carried away with the ability to make clever noises come out of the PC's speaker. As it happens, there is a way to make an irritatingly audible program shut up. Using DEBUG, you can alter the code of the program so that the program won't issue commands to the speaker at all.
Using CAT ME on a Laptop
Authors: Schultz Lois
Published: March 2008

Since we became a test library for version 4.0 of the OCLC Cataloging Micro Enhancer software (CAT ME), several catalogers at Duke University Library have been experimenting with using laptop computers to edit OCLC records. We're investigating the advantages of offline editing during normal working hours, editing by the cataloger, and the convenience of working at a desk where books to be cataloged as well as reference sources (e.g., classification schedules and Cutter tables) are handy. We hope to determine if it's efficient for catalogers to do their own entry.
Automating Production of a New Books List
Authors: Chang Sheau‐Hwang
Published: March 2008

Our New Title Booklist is a special service provided by the Catalog Department of the Maxwell Library to inform the faculty, students, and staff at Bridgewater State College of the new materials acquired by the library each month (about 1,000 new titles every month). The main entry body of the Booklist is arranged in 32 very broad subject headings (fig. 1), most of which are based on LC Classification Schedules such as EDUCATION and HISTORY. But some headings are actually locations, for example, REFERENCE is used for our REFERENCE collection and CURRICULUM is used for textbooks, instructional aids, and the children's and young adult collections. Within individual subject headings, entries are arranged by call numbers (fig. 2). The cover page is a brief index that leads individual departments to their relevant subject headings (fig. 3).
Not for Novices
Authors: Bendig Mark
Published: March 2008

One of the most important aspects of programming in BASIC or any other language involves the interaction between the program and its user. For a typical microcomputer, the principal channels for this interaction are via the CRT screen and the keyboard. (Mouse‐based systems such as the Macintosh constitute a separate universe, requiring a fundamentally different approach to programming.) This article focuses on user‐to‐program interaction via the keyboard in BASIC programs. This keyboard interaction may involve user‐issued commands, menu selections, data entry—anything the user “tells” the program. The programming techniques are similar in all cases. Here, we'll look at a specific technique for getting a menu selection from the user.
DOS‐tips
Authors: Bendig Mark
Published: March 2008

Have you ever noticed the mysterious single‐ and double‐dot entries that appear at the top of every DIR listing outside of your root directory? These are not files, nor are they named subdirectories of the kind you create yourself. Rather, they are special ways used by DOS to refer to the current' subdirectory (single dot) and the “parent” or next‐level‐up subdirectory (double dot).
Not for Novices
Authors: Bendig Mark
Published: March 2008

This is the third in a series of articles about accepting user input in BASIC programs. Previous columns (Oct. 1988 and Feb. 1989) discussed the INPUT statement, used to get a string of characters (eg., Your Name) from the user, and the INPUTS function, which we used to accept a single‐character menu selection. Now, we'll look at the most advanced input technique of all. This is a technique in which your program accepts one keystroke at a time from the user until the  key is pressed. The fact that your program gets to “look at” each incoming character and act on it individually allows great flexibility. First, let's get specific Fire up your copy of BASIC and enter the following short program
Computer Technology and the Physically Disabled
Authors: Edwards Sandra
Published: March 2008

Computer technology is providing diverse opportunities for businesses to increase productivity and revenue. In particular, computers have become a mainstay in our work places, our schools, and our homes. While this “news” is no great revelation, the fact that opportunities for everyone exist is nothing short of a miracle Why this declaration? Because computer technology has reached every group of people, including the physically disabled and learning impaired. Computers now empower the physically disabled to meet the challenges they face on more nearly equal terms, eliminating or reducing restrictions on their education, career, and entertainment choices. And many of these innovative variations on the technological theme, like those of the space program, are equally applicable to the workaday world of the rest of us. Which of us wouldn't rather talk to our computers than have to type in commands (The Voice Navigator enables Macintosh users to do this) or have our computer “read” to us as we proofread against the original copy, instead of shifting our focus between paper and screen repeatedly?
EDuced
Authors: Valauskas Ed
Published: March 2008

A careful study of OCLC's dial access manuals provides no evidence that the Apple Macintosh works as an OCLC terminal. Despite this gap in these otherwise informative publications, with a little detective work, experimentation, and common sense, librarians have been using the Macintosh to search bibliographic records for reference inquiries, file interlibrary loan requests for patrons, even manipulate records in the course of cataloging. This column is the first in a series exploring the Macintosh as an interface to the OCLC database of over 20 million bibliographic records.
EDuced
Authors: Valauskas Ed
Published: March 2008

New versions of telecommunication software usually spell trouble for those of us who've established routines for access to remote systems such as OCLC. Over the years, I've become accustomed to the keyboard gymnastics often needed to generate proper responses while searching OCLC and editing bibliographic records. I certainly have become a more careful typist, to avoid retyping the long or complicated field changes that accommodate the cataloging idiosyncrasies of my library. But given the choice between charting the unknown of a new version of software or continuing my familiar, if contorted, drills using all of my available digits in a coordinated keyboard dance, I opt for the more complicated safety of a familiar stream of fixed and variable fields rather than risk eliciting the “Message not clear” warning.
Width Macro for 1–2–3
Authors: Gustafson John
Published: March 2008

This macro can be used to duplicate cell widths. Frequently I find a need to duplicate the cell widths in a parallel set of columns. In a large worksheet this task can be tedious at best. These macros will first place the original cell widths in a table and then use this table to duplicate the cell widths to the secondary area of the worksheet. Set this macro up in an unused worksheet first to see how it operates and to get your cell relationships correct. Copy the following cell entries exactly as they are shown in fig. 1.
A Closer Look at … Networks and Information Access
Authors: Welsch Erwin K.
Published: March 2008

In the movie Brazil, Robert DeNiro plays a rogue repairman who comes to rescue the unwary from snarls in wiring and ducts caused by an unresponsive government agency called Central Services. Librarians using electronic networks for information access may wish for similar assistance; prying open the network's wiring box, even metaphorically, can be a daunting (though rewarding) experience.
EDuced
Authors: Valauskas Ed
Published: March 2008

HyperCard, Apple's “information toolkit,” is one of the more unusual programs to appear in the last three years. Its distinction has as much to do with the way it combines graphics, text, and sound into a cohesive whole as with the fashion in which Apple has made it available to the public. Its inventor, Bill Atkinson, forced Apple to give away HyperCard with every new CPU and bundle of System software and utilities. This strategy allowed HyperCard to fall into the hands of millions of Macintosh users and demonstrated Apple's devotion—however unintentionally—to the notion of democratizing computer power, a hallmark of the hacker ethos. In due course, HyperCard has become a major component of the programming fabric for the Macintosh, largely because it epitomizes programming as an art, not an exercise.
DOS‐tips
Authors: Bendig Mark
Published: March 2008

Most PC users know that you can terminate a DOS command by pressing  . Many programs respond to this keystroke by terminating the current operation (as DOS does); others may ignore it completely or even perform some other program‐specific action, such as returning to a “main menu.”
David Buckle at OCLC Europe
Authors: Melin Nelson Nancy
Published: March 2008

OCLC has always been a farsighted institution. Only ten years after its successful North American venture in providing online cataloging support to Ohio libraries (more than ten years before the official introduction of the European Economic Community), OCLC opened an office in the United Kingdom. Its success has been nothing less than explosive.
OCLC Computing—A New Feature of Computers in Libraries Conferences
Authors: Melin Nelson Nancy
Published: March 2008

A special track, sponsored by OCLC Micro magazine, has been added to the annual Computers in Libraries Conferences. Convened by Dan Marmion, editor of OCLC Micro, the track has been planned by Dave Brunell, executive director of Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR).
Public Services
Authors: Townsel‐Winston Melinda
Published: March 2008

Before introducing the guest columnists for this issue, I want to remind you that one purpose of this column is to provide librarians with a forum whereby they can address the topic of using OCLC for public services. That's why I make use of guest columnists rather than writing all the columns myself.
OCLC News
Authors: Marmion Dan
Published: March 2008

The FirstSearch Catalog, OCLC's new online reference service designed for library patrons, won the Computers in Libraries Information Product/Service (CLIPS) Award for 1992 (see Figure 1). A panel of five library professionals selected FirstSearch as the most innovative and effective information product or service of the year. The judges felt that FirstSearch deserved the award because it is designed for library patrons, it is very easy to use, and it is backed by OCLC's long‐standing reputation for reliability.
PASSPORT/PRISM
Authors: Carter Judith
Published: March 2008

Libraries face change at such an incredible rate and from such a variety of sources. They face implementation of local systems or upgrades to local systems, changes to online database services, revised internal procedures, upgrades to software and DOS, additional services offered by vendors, budget cuts (never increases) … I could go on but I'm getting depressed, and I'm probably depressing you too.
John Popko: Users Council President
Authors: Melin Nelson Nancy
Published: March 2008

John Popko has hit the ground running. Early in June he was elected as vice president/president elect of OCLC's Users Council and, as such, he anticipated a full year's time in which to shape his presidential agenda. But in less than sixty days he found himself promoted to the presidency.
OCLC Users Council Meeting Report: October 4–6, 1992
Authors: Bierman Kenneth J.
Published: March 2008

The Users Council's theme for the 1992/93 year is Transforming Technologies: Reconstructing Libraries for the New Information Community. To begin this, the October Users Council meeting focused on telecommunications (Internet/NREN specifically), with a presentation on the ambitious Blacksburg Electronic Village project.
OCLC News
Authors: Melin Nelson Nancy
Published: March 2008

In order to expand availability of the FirstSearch system, OCLC has instituted a new subscription pricing option. The University of Utah became the first institution to select the new pricing system.
OCLC News
Authors: Nelson Milo
Published: March 2008

The largest authority control corrections project in OCLC's history has begun with automated soft‐ware programs that work their way through the twenty‐eight million record Online Union Catalog, identifying and linking variant forms to the correct form of name and subject headings. At least five million corrections are anticipated. OCLC is also applying the corrections software to Harvard University's online catalog, HOLLIS.
ILL‐Conceived Ideas
Authors: Raschke Susan
Published: March 2008

Welcome to The Column concerning interlibrary services in the OCLC universe! Dare if you will to join me in my continuing mission to infuse new life, explore strange new visions, and boldly go where no humor has gone before. In this episode we investigate new desires, tips, space visions, and titillating trends….
K. Wayne Smith: OCLC's New Orleans Meeting
Authors: Wayne Smith K.
Published: March 2008

Today I want to give you a brief state‐of‐OCLC report. I want to begin with finances, because a financially strong OCLC is absolutely critical to the pursuit of our public purposes.
OCLC News
Authors: Nelson Milo
Published: March 2008

OCLC has issued its 1992–93 annual report, the twenty‐sixth for the non‐profit organization.
An Interview with Carol Tenopir
Authors: Townsel‐Winston Melinda
Published: March 2008

Carol Tenopir is a professor at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Hawaii. She has a BA in English/History from Whittier College in California, an MS in Library Science from California State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Library and Information Science. She teaches courses in Electronic Reference Services, Advanced Online Information Services, Indexing and Abstracting, and the Information Industry. Dr. Tenopir is well known for her Library Journal column, “Online Databases,” which she has been writing for ten years.
OCLC Users Council Meeting
Authors: Ostendorf JoEllen
Published: March 2008

The OCLC Users Council met on October 10–12, 1993, in Dublin, Ohio, as the first meeting of the new fiscal year. “The Bibliographic Commons and Beyond: Electronic Publishing and Knowledge Management” is the theme for the 1993–94 Users Council. “Preserving the Bibliographic Commons” was the focus of the fall meeting.
Confessions of a Diskette Junkie
Authors: Sherman Dave
Published: March 2008

Everyone knows that when you close a closet at night, the hangers multiply. Did you know that diskettes have the same property? They multiply in direct proportion to the number of programs you have. In the five years I've owned an IBM PC, I've accumulated over 800 diskettes, not including my blank diskettes. This number increases greatly when you add the 3 ½ in. disks I started collecting a year ago when vendors began including them in their packages.
OCLC Book Label Production Using WordPerfect 5.0
Authors: Snyder Patricia G.
Published: March 2008

Producing spine and book labels on the OCLC system for sets of books with many volumes, replacement or supplemental volumes, or annual editions can be very tedious and costly as one moves the cursor line‐by‐line to insert the volume or edition numbers. With WordPerfect 50, it's possible to produce these labels efficiently by using keyboard merges and looping macros. Once the master file for each label is produced, you can invoke the merge and have the cursor moved to the exact place on the label where the volume or edition number is to be inserted. Also, if the library has more than one copy of the set, the replace command () may be used to change the copy number on the labels in a few seconds.
PLANEMAKERS FIGHT TO HOLD WORLD MARKETS
Authors: Reed Arthur
Published: March 2008

EXECUTIVES of the British aerospace industry left the Farnborough air show happier than when they arrived. During the period of this biennial display of their wares some significant pointers to the path the industry will take in the future began to show up.
Unions press for pollution control
Authors: Mandle Ian , Lawless John
Published: March 2008

THE TRADES UNION CONGRESS is pressing the government to set up a central body to investigate and advise on the whole question of environment in Britain today. If implemented, the scheme would have a major effect on industry and is likely to be viewed by cost‐conscious management warily. Talks have taken place at Cabinet Office level, but at present the unions are concerned that the idea has become “bogged down” and is in danger of being lost because of the presence of a permanent Royal Commission and a government‐sponsored committee.
The airlines' problem: too many seats and too few bottoms
Authors: Eglin Roger
Published: March 2008

Beneath the glossy jet‐set glitter, air transport is a desperately sick industry. Since 1966 the net profit on revenue of the world's schedule airlines has slipped from 6% to near vanishing point.
Time and trade wait for no man
Authors: Mayes Keith
Published: March 2008

During the Depression people went round asking “Buddy, can you spare a dime?” By 1969 beggars on Broadway thought 20 cents the minimum donation. In the last few months, as they have suffered from inflation, derelicts have boosted their demands to 30 cents.
Dust storm in a buttercup
Authors: Williams Alan
Published: March 2008

POLLUTION SEEMS SURE of a place among the top ten public relations campaigns of the century. Of course, it has enormous attractions as an issue. It has considerable emotional appeal for a start: images of unhealthy people breathing foul air in monstrously distorted countryside laid waste by generations of conspicuous consumption. It is also easy to become an instant self appointed expert, blandly rolling ecological disasters off the tongue with the cultured facility of the man reading out the football results on the television. The subject is so enormous that it is relatively easy to talk non‐stop for several hours in splendidly esoteric, unconstructive generalizations. And, dare one say it, the cynics among us have spotted its potential application as a genuine blockbuster of a political red herring. William Davis said recently in Punch that the British seem to need a crisis. If all else fails, or if we have a real crisis so nasty that we don't wish to discuss it, we can always rely on environment, pollution and ecology to turn up trumps.
America column
Authors: Mayes Keith
Published: March 2008

A few weeks ago Cathy, the 11‐year‐old daughter of some friends of mine, came home from school with a questionnaire. She was asked to answer 22 points about her classmates, nominating three in each case.
The feudal lords
Authors: Boex J.J.
Published: March 2008

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Juggernaut was the massive idol of Krishna that was dragged through the streets of Puri in Orissa on an enormous cart. Devotees of the god frequently threw themselves under the wheels in ritual suicide.
Detection in the dark
Authors: Fishlock David
Published: March 2008

Contrary to popular stories put about during World War II, man's ability to see better in the black‐out was not helped by eating carrots. But it was at this time that scientists in both Britain and Germany fought a one‐upmanship battle to produce equipment capable of spotting the enemy in darkness.
VAT '73
Authors: Higgins Terence
Published: March 2008

THE INTRODUCTION IN APRIL 1973 of Value Added Tax and the abolition of selective employment and purchase taxes will be the most fundamental change in our system of indirect taxation embarked on by a government this century.
As Tories head for self‐help schemes…
Authors: Eglin Roger
Published: March 2008

A woman whose husband died suddenly applied to his firm's pension fund trustees for cash benefit. After considerable delay, back came a long letter which was so financially complicated that the widow couldn't make sense of it—even though she had an economics degree.
Industrial action replay
Authors: Johnson Tim
Published: March 2008

Customers of one of ICI's industrial divisions are going to find themselves getting a new kind of sales pitch before very long. The salesman will have a neat little box which plugs into the aerial socket of a television set. Then he will drop a small circular package into the box, press the button, and the customer will be all set up to watch on his own television a technological‐cum‐educational‐cum‐sales film on the latest marvel offered by ICI.
Corporate giants duck out
Authors: Mayes Keith
Published: March 2008

Flying in from Chicago, Bunker‐Ramo Corporation boss Frank J. Allston, Jr., looks at the yellowy‐brown pall hanging over New York City and thanks heaven he is not still living under that particular cloud. ‘It looks as if some giant maid just shook her mop out,’ grumbles the man who took his company away to Illinois after years of operating in the towering and sprawling mass below.
Play‐safe Lamson looks good
Authors: Byrne Patrick
Published: March 2008

The Lamson Industries performance in 1970 was not entirely satisfactory, at least from its own viewpoint, in as much as the healthy surge in sales was not matched by an improvement in pre‐tax profits. The second half‐year did not come up to expectations; turnover increased by 206% but pre‐tax profit went up by only 12·9% from £5·4 million to £6·1 million.
Sits. vac. soon at super‐ministry
Authors: Novak Paul
Published: March 2008

Sighs of relief in the Cabinet. Edward Heath has told his Top Team that they are safe from the axe, barring accidents, for at least another year. The Prime Minister, operating under the dictum that his ministers must be given time to achieve results in their departments, has decided against a major Cabinet re‐shuffle until the end of the Conservatives' second parliamentary session—the autumn of 1972.
Capital goods — still on the slide
Authors: Eglin Roger
Published: March 2008

If the CBI's industrial trends survey had not shown signs of optimism, Britain would indeed have been on the brink of disaster.
Please adjust your dress before succeeding
Authors: Mayes Keith
Published: March 2008

In the fifties, everyone knew what the American businessman looked like. He was crewcut and wore a grey‐flannel suit. At board‐room meetings he invariably addressed his colleagues by their initials, which tacitly conceded the lack of personality accompanying the surrender of his soul to the corporation. The organization man was a breathing version of an interchangeable part.
£100 million job grants likely to stay in regions
Authors: Novak Paul
Published: March 2008

An unusual appetite for eating their own words, a peculiar pastime for politicians, is being displayed by Government ministers. And this healthy predilection for changing course if economic and political circumstances demand a ‘re‐think’ has raised hopes among Labour MPs from the regions—worried about soaring unemployment and anxiously awaiting the results of the Cabinet's review of development area policy—that the regional employment premium REP might be saved. The premium was introduced by the Wilson Government in the budget of 1967. It is paid at the rate of £150 a week for every man employed full‐time in manufacturing industry in the development areas; 75p for women and boys, and just under 50p for girls. It is currently costing £108 million a year and the Government is pledged to keep on paying it until 1974, despite the fact that ministers describe it as a ‘nonsense’ and an extremely wasteful form of subsidy.
Continental lorries to go further ahead
Authors: Haworth David
Published: March 2008

WHAT IS Europe going to do about the juggernaut question—whose problems from the British angle were detailed in January's Industrial Management editorial?
Buddy, can you spare a million?
Authors: Mayes Keith
Published: March 2008

David Sarnoff, the RCA chairman who died in December, was an outstanding example of the American creed that, Whittington‐like, a man can rise from immigrant penury to become a multi‐millionaire.
Postal code penalties
Authors: Novak Paul
Published: March 2008

Post office chiefs, facing the possible collapse of the complicated and controversial postal code, are considering a range of ‘penalties’ to try to force firms and customers to catch on to the system. The success of the £80 million project is entirely dependent on public support. And before mechanized sorting becomes efficient and economic to run, at least 70% of all letters must be correctly coded.
Prospects best for medium firms
Authors: Haworth David
Published: March 2008

IT IS WRONG TO THINK the departments of the European Commission are staffed by fanatical devotees of centralization. The fact is that the disparities which still exist between the laws of the various Community states constitute discrimination against medium‐sized firms, to the benefit of larger competitors.
Davies's dilemma: Consumer protection and company freedom
Authors: Novak Paul
Published: March 2008

THE CABINET IS under mounting pressure from Conservative MPs to appoint an Ombudsman for Britain's shoppers as part of a major review of consumer protection now being carried out in Whitehall and which will have far‐reaching repercussions for all branches of British industry and commerce.
Competing on the same side
Authors: Geddes Reay
Published: March 2008

‘The enlarged Community cannot afford a gentle period of gradually growing together.’
out of the non‐stick frying pan
Authors: Mayes Keith
Published: March 2008

‘The space programme is the first time that technology has advanced at an abnormal rate without depending on a war …’
Changing the rings
Authors: Witts Preston
Published: March 2008

Take an oil sealing ring made of cast‐iron, try to bend it, and it ‘gives’ only slightly. Do the same with a ring made of PTFE—or, to spell it out, polytetrafluroethylene—and you will be able to manipulate it as you wish.
Less power to the people
Authors: Mayes Keith
Published: March 2008

To gain access to one of America's toll‐roads you must first throw the appropriate coins into a basket at steering wheel height. Then a traffic light changes from red to green, and the toll‐machine flashes the words ‘Thank you’ in your direction. From seeming fear that the machine may feel that its courtesy is unappreciated, there is now a gadget on the market. For $39.95 you can become the proud possessor of an electronic device which attaches to the front of a car and accepts the toll‐booth's gratitude with the words ‘You're welcome’.
Ceramics are forever
Authors: Phillips Chris
Published: March 2008

Mention ceramics to the layman and the range of uses would probably extend no further than kitchen and bathroom ware, with perhaps the odd mention of sparking plugs and insulators for overhead power lines.
Inside Westminster
Authors: Novak Paul
Published: March 2008

INDUSTRY CAN ONLY benefit from the efforts of Airey Neave, chairman of the powerful all‐party Select Committee on science and technology. Neave was one of the first prisoners of war to escape from Colditz Castle. He strolled out dressed as a German officer. Now he is using his initiative to overcome a security problem of another kind—Whitehall's hidden secrets.
MM stakes out the entrepreneurs
Authors: BARNFATHER MAURICE
Published: March 2008

Midland Montagu's bread‐and‐butter business, according to financial executive Keith Gutteridge, is investment in small but fast growing companies. In return, it seeks an equity stake and a voice on the board—but never control.
Compensating the strike innocents
Authors: Robertson Robert
Published: March 2008

‘The financial loss suffered by companies, due to no fault of their own but brought about by the reaction of a section of the community to a situation caused by Government mis‐management or by the political dogma of trade unions challenging the law or Government, must give pause for thought and weight to an argument for compensation.’
Cash‐aid carrots to lure white‐collar men out of SE
Authors: Novak Paul
Published: March 2008

STAND BY FOR an announcement from Chris Chataway, the Industrial Development Minister, offering cash help to firms willing to move their offices and administrative centres to the development areas, where there is a desperate need for white‐collar jobs.
Industry plays ball on research park venture
Authors: Phillips Chris
Published: March 2008

A British invention capable of mapping the entire earth's atmosphere every 24 hours won deserved acclaim when—in the face of stiff American competition—it was included in NASA's Nimbus satellite programme.
Gilts pose threat to private bank funds
Authors: BARNFATHER MAURICE
Published: March 2008

Sir John Stevens, chairman of Morgan Grenfell, talks about the future prospects for merchant banking. One of the immediate worries, he says, is the possibility of a Government move to channel more institutional funds into the gilt‐edged market—thereby reducing the private sector flow.
Carr to issue pickets with ‘little red book’
Authors: Novak Paul
Published: March 2008

THE GOVERNMENT IS planning to issue a ‘little red book’ to the trade union stalwarts who man the picket lines in Britain's often bitter industrial disputes, telling them what they can and cannot do without breaking the law.
Jessel has a rethink on takeover tactics
Authors: Barnfather Maurice
Published: March 2008

Because of what he sees as a marked change in the takeover climate, financier Oliver Jessel believes that the days of fiercely contested bids are over. Jessel also has some critical comments to make about merchant banks who, he says, often make inflated claims about companies they are defending.
Trade deficit will force a ‘claw‐back’ budget, says Healy
Authors: Novak Paul
Published: March 2008

ANOTHER BUDGET WILL be unveiled by the Chancellor in July or October. And it will be so severe in its impact that the general election will be deferred until the spring of 1975.
Japan seeks UK help in Market trade talks
Authors: O'Dwyer Colin
Published: March 2008

THE PRESENT VISIT to Europe—and more particularly Brussels—by Masayoshi Ohira, the Japanese Foreign Minister, is noteworthy if only for its timing.
Haulage costs could rocket under transport tax proposals
Authors: Novak Paul
Published: March 2008

PROPOSALS WHICH COULD have a devastating effect on the transport plans and costs of British industry are now being studied by the Environment Secretary.
Brussels Commission aims to show its human face
Authors: O'Dwyer Colin
Published: March 2008

DURING THE TEN weeks before New Year—the deadline set by the Paris Summit of 1972 for the establishment of the various new European policies—Commission President François‐Xavier Ortoli is determined to see the ‘human face’ of his giant institution firmly established.
BLUEPRINT FOR SURVIVAL
Authors: Grayston Dave
Published: March 2008

THE short time week has brought the expansion of many British companies to a shuddering halt—but it's hard to say just how the crisis is affecting small to medium firms. To find some of the answers Industrial Management took an in‐depth look at Johnsons—a typical manufacturing company hit in a typical way.
HOW TO SPARKLE IN THE JEWELLERY BUSINESS
Authors: KENTON LESLIE
Published: March 2008

VERTICAL integration can cause a company a lot of headaches. There was a time when Ratner's had their share, but no longer.
CRISIS IN THE PLASTICS INDUSTRY
Authors: Phillips Chris
Published: March 2008

Ironically, the shortage of material has had two beneficial side‐effects
WHERE BRITAIN LAGS BEHIND THE WORLD
Authors: Grayston Dave
Published: March 2008

‘This country is falling far behind its industrial rivals in the application of automated control to machine tools’
INDUSTRY GOES TO BOMB CLASSES
Authors: Kenton Leslie
Published: March 2008

Burns International Security Services has started day seminars to educate top management about dealing with this new threat
WHAT JAPAN CAN OFFER US
Authors: LAWLESS JOHN
Published: March 2008

Hamish McGhie, Britain's economic minister in Tokyo speaks about the present… and the future
Are our trade associations good enough?
Authors: ROBINSON TIM
Published: March 2008

A year ago Devlin warned that Britain could be left behind in the EEC food lobbying stakes
HOW USELESS IS INDUSTRIAL LAW?
Authors: Mitchell Ewan
Published: March 2008

There are times when winning a case in court can be disastrou
Throwing money down the drain
Authors: Grayston David
Published: March 2008

The Ministry of Technology estimates that half the country's total bill for industrial maintenance is sheer waste
What you should know about PENSIONS
Authors: WILTON MICHAEL
Published: March 2008

THERE is still a very attractive way of saving for retirement open to a section of the business community. It is known as the self‐employed pension or personal retirement plan.
Espionage threat to British industry
Authors: Palmer Raymond
Published: March 2008

BUSINESS ESPIONAGE is currently one of the most insidious threats facing successful British companies.
UNIONS AND EMPLOYERS CLASH ON NEW TRAINING LEVY
Authors: PHILLIPS CHRIS
Published: March 2008

Unions fear that many firms will shirk training responsibility and write‐off the levy as an unnecessary evil.
Management fear over new safety law
Authors: Mitchell Ewan
Published: March 2008

A recent parliamentary bill introduces stringent new criminal law, which could give management some embarrassing times in court.
PLANNING TECNIQUES THAT PAY OFF
Authors: Walles Rolf
Published: March 2008

Proper planning can be a make‐or‐break factor in business profitability — yet too many companies still fail to acknowledge its real value, says Rolf Walles. Here, Walles describes a Swedish project which shows that “planning is not merely an administrative part of production but the very origin of its economic performance”.
COMPANY REPORTS:Beware of glossing over the facts
Authors: Hendriksen Derek
Published: March 2008

Workforce pressure for more disclosure of business information — reinforced by the Industry Act — is spawning a “pop” generation of company reports and accounts, packed with glossy pictures and graphics. But Derek Hendriksen warns that visual gimmicks are no substitute for easily understood, relevant information.
The changes that need to be made
Authors: Smith
Published: March 2008

Pleas for closer ties between industry and universities are not enough, says Professor Roland Smith, who is both a practising academic and an industrialist. Here, he puts forward a string of proposals — many of which are bound to cause controversy — for breaking down the barrier. He calls for efficiency checks on universities and polytechnics, the diversion of cash and resources from arts and social sciences to technology and science and an increase in fees for overseas students to help combat inflation.
Where the buck should stop
Authors: Thompson John , Forge John
Published: March 2008

Last month, John Thompson and John Forge examined some of the oft‐quoted shortcomings of British management and concluded that too much senior executive time was devoted to issues which have traditionally been the responsibility of middle‐managers. Here, they set out to identify further causes of mis‐spent time and the repercussions that are likely to follow if influence and authority are not re‐delineated from shopfloor to boardroom.
The trailer makers with get up and go
Authors: Davis John
Published: March 2008

Three men decided to set up on their own in the fiercely competitive road trailer market. Chris Phillips reports on the enthusiasm which keeps the company thriving — and the problems which threaten its future.
Stout performance from Packaging and Paper
Authors: Millen James
Published: March 2008

At the half‐way stage for the year it was difficult not to be concerned about the prospects for the economy and the stock market.
Orders boost for building materials
Authors: Millen James
Published: March 2008

The extent of the ‘boom’ on the Stock Market — fuelled by confidence in the improvement in the rate of inflation figures and a strengthening pound — in the five weeks to August 11 came as a surprise to many. Despite the widespread gains in most sectors, the prospect of a sustained drive forward into new high‐ground from the FT 30‐Share Index was considered unlikely — and certainly the forward momentum was substantially checked by the announcement of the disappointing balance of payment figures for July.
Chemical companies find the right solution
Authors: Millen James
Published: March 2008

As the leaves began to fall with the advent of October, so did the hopes and aspirations of many investors who, two short weeks before, had been encouraged into supposing that with the FT 30‐Share Index at its 1978 peak of 535.5 the sky was the limit.
WHAT HAVE GOT IN COMMON?
Authors: Ponsonby
Published: March 2008

There's hardly an association, institute or company of any real size that doesn't feel the urge to have at least one get‐together each year. More and more are catching the conference habit, which lends support for the prediction by Geoffrey Smith, director of the London Convention Bureau, that the annual growth rate will stay around five per cent.
Lending so much — but not enough
Authors: Phillips Chris
Published: March 2008

To what extent does collective opinion mirror individual experience? I pose this question after talking recently to the MD of what is, by common definition, a small firm with a worldwide reputation for its electronic measuring equipment.
Out on a limb over differentials
Authors: Phillips Chris
Published: March 2008

The ill‐fated strike by craftsmen at BL Cars is another graphic illustration of industry's pay bargaining muddles.
Why Westminster can't take business decisions
Authors: Marsh Richard
Published: March 2008

Sir Richard Marsh quit British Rail three years ago, frustrated in his efforts to manage in the way he thought fit. But his ideas about the running of nationalised industries have not changed. It's the job of Parliament, he says, to lay down economic and social guidelines and for management to produce a set of expenditure‐related options which should be considered by the Government in a rational, numerate way. Only then can State‐owned industry pursue workable goals and set about giving value for money.
Let's not be so unbending on flexible working hours
Authors: Reinelt Graham
Published: March 2008

“I JUST cannot get up in the morning and always end up rushing to work. This morning I missed the train again and got in late”.
Penetration, Blown and Hard
Authors: Kelland Alan
Published: March 2008

WHEN oil refiners have refined about as far as they can, they are left with a residue — bitumen. Its properties and character vary with the crude oil being refined. The bitumen producer blends and treats different raw bitumens to produce three main types for use in industry. In addition, oil company subsidiaries and independents process the bitumens to produce bitumen emulsions, bituminous mastics, and bituminous solutions and in latter years homogeneous blends of bitumen with resins and other materials. Such processed materials can be used as adhesives, sealants, waterproofing materials, flooring and road surfacing binders, insulation accessories, and general waterproofing and building protection coatings, quite apart from their widespread use in industrial processes.
THE FLEXIBLE HOTEL THAT S‐T‐R‐E‐T‐C‐H‐E‐S AND SHRINKS TO FIT ALL YOUR REQUIREMENTS
Authors: SNOBEL ALEC
Published: March 2008

YOU may see them sneaking out of the hotel early in the morning, a straggle of self‐conscious corpulent middle‐aged executives heading determinedly for the horizon as fast as a surfeit of expense account eating and a lack of wind will permit. No, they are not dodging the cashier, merely following the Portman's jogging map. This charts three alternative routes through London's Hyde Park and it demonstrates the thoroughness with which this five‐star hotel caters for the business man's every possible needs.
BUY BRITISH? IT'S A RECIPE FOR DISASTER
Authors: Goldsmith Walter
Published: March 2008

WHO could object to the concept of Buying British wherever possible? The very suggestion to the contrary seems not only unpatriotic, but damaging to hard pressed British companies complaining that their natural market is rapidly being usurped by foreign competitors.
SLAKING INDUSTRY'S GREAT THIRST FOR PURE WATER
Authors: Moreau David M.
Published: March 2008

UNTIL recently, water was the Cinderella of chemical raw materials. This is despite the bizarre fact, on which biology depends, that water is so hospitable to life that 30 seconds exposure to air of a Petri dish containing pure sterile water will ensure that it becomes a culture of bacteria, moulds and algae.
Better safe than sorry!
Authors: Levy Says J.W.
Published: March 2008

THREE out of four safes in use in Britain today are estimated to be at least 60 years old. As the average person has little cause to consider the subject of safes at all it is understandable that he may assume that any safe is safe. The facts prove otherwise, with the vast majority of successful attacks being made on obsolete units safeguarding values that they were never designed to protect.
ALCOHOLISM Industry's magnum‐sized problem
Authors: Curson David A.
Published: March 2008

THE COST of alcoholism to industry has been difficult to estimate, but one survey suggested that 255,000 alcoholics in various stages of addiction are in full‐time employment. A working party set up by the National Council on Alcoholism in 1976, conservatively estimated that the cost to industry was in the region of £350 million per annum.
SPY STORY Part 2
Authors: Heims Peter
Published: March 2008

THE CLASSIFICATION of “industrial spy” will not be found in the list of those persons eligible for Rotary, but this does not mean that there are not some persons who follow this profession; there are, and they are just as dedicated as any dcoctor or lawyer as to how they handle their assignments.
FUELS for the FUTURE
Authors: Hoffman Mike
Published: March 2008

So supplies of fossil fuel will soon run dry. No one can put a date on when it will happen but it will certainly be in the foreseeable future. What then? Maybe engines running on peanut, sunflower or corn oil or on a fuel derived from soya beans, eucalyptus trees or coal. All are possibilities, but no single one can provide the universal answer to the world's fuel problems. “Industrial Management” invited comments from Perkins, a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of diesel engines.
When the public purse penalises private enterprise
Authors: Snobel Alec
Published: March 2008

THAT admirable champion of free enterprise, Aims, has published a booklet in which economist Alfred Sherman, who is also one of Mrs Thatcher's speech writers, calls for a Minister for Denationalisation to dismantle the “vast parasitic apparatus” of State industry.
A Deterministic Approach to Systems Design
Authors: Blay Gill
Published: March 2008

The objective of software development is to produce accurate, efficient, easily maintainable systems which perform reliably and meet the users' needs as effectively as possible. However, this objective is still not being achieved in most installations. During the last ten years many good methodologies for programming have been introduced and it is generally agreed that the use of almost any of these solves most, if not all, of the problems encountered during programming. But methodologies for commercial systems design have not become so well established, although it is generally recognised that many systems are poorly designed and that this causes problems in later development stages and subsequent maintenance. The design problem has been highlighted since programming has improved so much through the use of new techniques.
Microelectronics and Marketing
Authors: Mann Jim , Thornton Peter
Published: March 2008

The first paper ever published on microprocessors described the device as the “re‐configurable” circuit. This conveys the simplest, but most important feature of the microprocessor, namely that by changing the software a device can be tailored to fit a wide range of applications — from a simple light switch control to the central processing unit of a computer. This versatility of microelectronic devices, combined with their falling price, decreasing size and exponentially increasing power makes inevitable their widespread application. Indeed, it can be predicted with reasonable confidence that by the end of the century the pervasiveness of the “silicon chip” will be the defining characteristic of an advanced society.