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ACCESS TO INFORMATION
On another page we print an observer's view of the conference with this title recently called by the Library Association. Why, one may ask, this present preoccupation of our…
DEWEY JOINS THE JET AGE
James A. TailTHE APPEARANCE OF A NEW EDITION of the Decimal Classification is always an event of some importance in the library world. It is perhaps viewed with apprehension by the library…
GETTING TO KNOW ELIZABETH GASKELL
Barbara BrillIT IS A HUNDRED YEARS AGO on November 12th since Elizabeth Gaskell died suddenly at the age of fifty‐five. She had not begun to write seriously until she was nearly forty, but…
THE CHILD IN SCHOOL
Jessie G.M. MersonI AM GOING TO BE TALKING about the library of Niddrie Marischal School in Edinburgh, because I feel very strongly that a school library has to fit its school, has to fit the needs…
THE SCOTTISH CONTRIBUTION TO CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Alison DouglasTHE MAJOR CONTRIBUTION, though not the only one, has been made by Scottish authors, both by the well‐known ones, such as R. L. Stevenson and J. M. Barrie, in whose work their…