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TRAINING THE FUTURE PROFESSIONALS
IAN MOWATGlasgow University Library's participation in and contribution to the SCONUL student trainee scheme over the past two decades have increasingly been appreciated by library school…
PROFESSIONAL VALUES IN A BUREAUCRATIC STRUCTURE
R.C. USHERWOODFor the purposes of this paper a bureaucratic organisation is defined as an organisation that relies on rules and non professional control structures. Thus librarians working for…
INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL IN THE PROFESSIONAL CURRICULUM
RODNEY BRUNTIt is generally accepted that cataloguing and classification should be included in the core subjects in any course leading to the award of a professional library qualification. In…
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL INFLUENCES ON LIBRARY PROVISION IN IRELAND 1850–1925
JOHN S. POWELLThe unloved Act of Union between the British and Irish Parliaments in 1800 which constituted the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland had within it the seeds of its own…
THE COMPANY, THE COMMON MAN, AND THE LIBRARY: LEADHILLS AND WANLOCKHEAD
PETER JACKAMANOf all industrial activities in these islands that of mining is perhaps the oldest. The extraction of the mineral wealth of the country — tin, iron, copper, gold, coal and so on …
KNOWLEDGE: GENERAL OR USEFUL?
BRIAN GRIFFINIn his preface to Everyman's encyclopaedia the editor traces the ancestry of such compendia “back via Knight's Encyclopaedia to the great Penny Cyclopaedia published between 1833…
JOHN FOWLES: THE AMBIVALENT VIRTUES?
CHARLES PALLISERIn some ways the popularity of John Fowles is surprising. His two best‐sellers, The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman, exemplify strengths and weaknesses unusual in so…