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Subscription Libraries and the Cost of Living
GEOFFREY WHATMOREThe merging of the Birmingham Library with the Birmingham and Midland Institute has sent a mild shiver through the faded rooms of the proprietary and subscription libraries. Not…
The Short of It
SYLVIA HAYMONIt is a moot point whether people use abbreviations in speaking and writing in order to save time or in order to have more time to waste; but there are good grounds for thinking…
Dummy Books
DAVID GUNSTONIn a more spacious age, when books were far fewer and better bound than they are today, they were used on occasion primarily as furniture. Neat lines of handsome volumes were…
Recent Guide Books
A TRAVELLERPost‐war conditions—the prosperity of manual and clerical workers; paid holidays; a natural reaction against being cooped up for so long in a tight little island—have brought…
The Library Association Syllabus and Proposed Amendments: A Symposium
L.R.During the past two years a Joint Committee of representatives of the Library Association and Aslib has met at intervals to consider ways in which the syllabus of the Library…