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FOR THIS AND FUTURE GENERATIONS MANAGING THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND USE
ALEX WILSONMY THEME affects all of the community who live with or by books. This theme is that all of the book community, but most particularly librarians, have given priority to the…
COLLEGE LIBRARY GUIDELINES: TWO VIEWS FROM ENGLAND
The day of standards is over, one hard‐headed public librarian has said. It may be true that in Britain the emphasis among both public and academic libraries has shifted to…
INFORMATION SKILLS AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
ROBERT CRAIGIN 1975 an observer visited the multi‐media centre at Kennoway in Fife. There he was shown by an enthusiastic Head Teacher, classes of children being taught “information skills”…
CAPITAL APPRECIATION: STIRLING BURGH LIBRARY 1897–1914
CHARLES F. BROOKTHE ANCIENT and royal burgh of Stirling, at one time the capital of Scotland, was at the turn of the century the county town of Stirlingshire and the centre of a thriving…