Library Review: Volume 23 Issue 6

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Dewey Decimal Classification: A Vigorous Nonagenarian

James A. Tait

THE FLAVOUR of the eigtheenth edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification can perhaps best be appreciated by a quotation from its preface: ‘The Decimal Classification Editorial…

The Novels of James Kennaway

Hugh Mackay

MANY WRITERS have something to say to us; a few speak to one's condition. For some of us, of this time and place, James Kennaway was one of those few, and this is why news of his…

Books for a Desert Island

A.E. Day

FOR MANY YEARS PAST Roy Plomley has persuaded all kinds of people, celebrities every one, but not all of them just transient showbiz personalities hurtling like meteors across the…

Printer to Sir Walter Scott

Frances Collingwood

THE LIFE OF JAMES BALLANTYNE, Scottish printer, is so interlaced with those of his brothers, John and Sandy, and with the misfortunes of Sir Walter Scott, that it is impossible to…

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0024-2535

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1927 – 2017

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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