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CRISIS‐CENTRED, ISSUE‐BASED: THE LONELINESS OF DISTANCE LEARNING
JAMES BOYLEFrom the Board Schools of the 1870s to the Polys of the 1960s, the structure of formal education in Britain has grown ever more elaborate. Now at every level it is under the…
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NOT ALL IN THE MIND: THE VIRILE PROFESSION
PENNY COWELLIn our media‐orientated, image‐conscious contemporary society the librarian may very well seem particularly unfortunate, reflected in the imagination of the general public as a…
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THE SELF‐RENEWING LIBRARY
ROGER HICKMANFrom Keith Harris's “Death and transfiguration” — which one University Librarian significantly baulked at reviewing for LR — onward, Atkinsonian thinking has produced extended if…
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“THE STABLE POINT OF REASON”: PRESCRIPTION OR MALADY?
STEVEN SHARPLESOne of the consequences of being a philosopher who insists on removing philosophy from the realm of abstract speculation and installing it as a practical tool for the posing and…
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