New Library World: Volume 73 Issue 2

Off the cuff

This column headed ‘off the cuff’ is an occasional feature for the NLW editorial board from time to time to air its own views on matters deserving comment but not warranting a…

Bremen branches out

WERNER MEVISSEN

THE CITY OF BREMEN stretches for thirty miles along the river Weser and nowhere is it more than ten miles wide. It has more than 600,000 inhabitants, divided into seventeen…

Illuminations

Let's get this pornography thing straight—or as straight as one can in such a sensitive field. Like most people (I shan't say normal people because I don't want to get involved in…

Hatfield Polytechnic's new library

DAVID BAGLEY

ON 24TH APRIL 1971, a new library building was opened by the Rt Hon Lord Snow cbe. Taken by itself, that bald news items does not seem particularly surprising; new libraries are…

People and events

This is the season of examination results and there are three pioneer ventures in education for librarianship which have come to fruition this summer. The College of Librarianship…