Abstract
Opening the conference, Mr Leslie Wilson, Director of Aslib, said that he did not often have the pleasure of welcoming to Aslib a party consisting either exclusively or predominantly of public librarians; he hoped there would be more occasions in the future. Experience suggested that serious consideration of the possibility of applying computer techniques in a library or information department—the subject of the conference—usually came about in one of two ways. Sometimes it was possible to take an objective look at a library situation, analyse it and make rational decisions. Far more often the librarian was told: ‘We now have a computer; use it at all costs!’ He hoped that public libraries, as responsible public bodies, might be able more often than some types of organization to adopt the former procedure.
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