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The Heroic Theme
William ReadyMAN IS HARD TO HANDLE; often he rejects, let alone Gandalf, his God. For as long as man lives all nature and beyond are trying to relate to him, but there is something in Man…
To Survive or Not To Survive
Anne EllisIN ANY TYPE OF LITERATURE it is easier in retrospect to pick out the notable writers of a period from the mass of lesser writers. With any type of current literature it is almost…
Confessions of a Library Biographer
W.A. MunfordI HAVE NEVER HAD ANY KIND OF AMBITION to become a sort of biographer general to the library profession. But then, as in other parts of my experience, delightfully unexpected…
Book Expenditure in British Public Libraries 1966–7
E.A. CloughAT THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES CONFERENCE at Dublin in 1967 my paper entitled ‘What should we provide?’ included an appraisal of where we stood in the matter of book expenditure, and…
The Library Association Annual Conference 1968
a CorrespondentTHE CONFERENCE OF THE British Library Association held in the Guildhall, London, in May attracted almost seven hundred delegates. Three were from Scotland and four from Northern…