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STAFF PARTICIPATION IN ACADEMIC LIBRARY GOVERNMENT
ALEX ANDERSONConventional wisdom has long held that senior staff in university libraries should have parity with their teaching colleagues not merely in salaries and general conditions of…
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AS LEARNING
RONALD G. YOUNGPolicy planning and local government is one of these rare books which both illuminate and excite—and should be on every bibliographical list given to students of local government.
NON‐LIBRARIANSHIP: YESTERDAY'S CLOSED LIBRARIES
H. ALLAN WHATLEYOf the libraries in which I worked during my youth several closed for ever after I left them. There were two central libraries and four branch libraries between 1930 and 1939—now…
CATALOGUING OU COURSE UNITS
BRENDA COOKAny librarian who has been faced with the problem of cataloguing the course unit booklets supplied by the Open University as the framework of its teaching will have discovered how…
THE WAY WE WEREN'T: A TALE OF PORTLAND PLACE
DAVID GERARDAnnalist rather than analyst, Professor Asa Briggs moves not dogmatically but deliberately through his own Music of Time series, the chronicles of broadcasting. His immense and…