Data Protection Act: Keeping The Records Straight

indexes published by the Document Supply Centre are a valuable aid to identification since they permit access by keywords in the titles of conferences. The Conference Index is now the largest bibliography of its kind in the world, with over 220,000 conferences in all sub- jects and languages. The centre also holds some papers which were prepared but never given, and even certain papers published in Japan on only a local level. Much of the Japanese material is available with at least part translated into English. The German War Records, which detail low technology solutions using in- digenous materials, NASA reports and the design studies of Chernobyl, are among recently sought items. Develop- ing countries are interested in Germany"s innovations during World War II, while space medicine, with its studies of weightlessness and bone loss, is becom- ing of wider interest. The library"s Medical Information Ser- vice - responsible for British and EE September 1988 European input into...