The Graphic Information Research Unit

Abstract

For the past 8 years the Graphic Information Research Unit has been working on various projects relating to the legibility of scientific and technical information. Much of this work has been funded by the British Library, and has been concerned with problems such as the degradation of printed images as a result of copying processes, the effects of show-through and other background patterns on legibility, the design of typewritten and typeset bibliographics, the design of COM catalogues, and the design of library guiding systems. The Unit’s survey of some of the problems of providing adequate guiding in libraries and museums is summarized, and two recent studies of COM catalogues are described.