New Library World: Volume 68 Issue 11
Table of contents
Library work with children in a large city
W.A. TAYLORBIRMINGHAM is the largest city in Great Britain, after London, and it is often called “The Second City”. It lies in the very centre of England, in Shakespeare's county of…
Working with children in a rural library
JENNIFER SHEPHERDSHROPSHIRE is one of the few remaining rural counties in England—there are parts where nothing appears to have happened for 20 or 100 years; where the people are leisurely in…
Activities in children's libraries
ANNE SILCOCKALL activities in children's libraries are designed to increase the use and knowledge of books, so that children will learn to read for enjoyment and so that books will help the…
A Children's librarian goes east
JANET HILLI WAS of course tremendously excited when I was invited to join a group of people mainly working with children in theatre, books and art, for a brief visit to the U.S.S.R. and…
Kid stuff …
MARTHÈ BARNETT‘DON'T be silly!” she scoffed, “What, as you call it, “skill” do you need to use a library? As for teaching it, as though it is, perhaps, on a par with a course in maths or…
Cosmographia: A Librarian's World
THE NEWLY APPOINTED HEADMASTER of a church primary school in the North, from which no pupil had been known to proceed to grammar school, transformed his staff's attitude to…
The Librarians's library
E.V. CORBETT, K.A. STOCKHAM, W.A. MUNFORDCOLLISON (R. L.) ed. Progress in Library Science. London, BUTTERWORTH, 1966. pp. xvii, 209. 45s.