Although not intended to be exhaustive and designed primarily for those working in the British textile industry, this reference tool provides a world-wide listing of textile organizations (trade, professional, labor, etc.); current textile periodicals (by title, subject, and country); abstracting services, review publications and information retrieval systems; selected books, directories and dictionaries; organizations issuing standards and specifications for the industry and sources of patent information and statistics. (Abstractor's note: Out-of-date but still useful.) -- AATA