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International Cooperative Abstracting on Building: An Appraisal
Pages 491-496

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... attached to a building research institute to subscribe to a large number of periodicals from a number of countries; to assemble books and pamphlets; and to prepare abstracts of a selection of the material thought to be of value to the research workers and other members of the employing organization. Thus there were such publications as Building Science Abstracts compiled by Building Research Station, Watford, England; Ministry of Works Library Bulletin compiled in London; Documentations Techniques, of l'Institut Technique du Batiment, Paris, and sundry others.
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From page 492...
... be published by printing on cards of uniform size, with a standard bibliographic reference and a common classification (Universal Decimal Classification governed by a special selection schedule)
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From page 493...
... The achievement of a unified pool of abstracts of world literature in the building field is obviously desirable. The present spectacle of several centres expensively achieving a partial result and each going over the same ground in doing so is deplorable.
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From page 494...
... Meanwhile, Building Science Abstracts adopted the practice of adding UDC Classification; theM.O.W. Library Bulletir' was produced in double-column form so that the abstracts could be pasted onto cards and interfiled with the orthodox international cards.
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From page 495...
... The cooperation of USSR and the east European countries is a distinct possibility. Hungarian Technical abstracts and the Polish Institute of Housing already produce some material of interest and it would not be difficult for them to produce national abstracts in the building range from among the technical abstracts already being prepared.
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