New Library World: Volume 73 Issue 6

Comment

LIONEL WHITE, CAROLE HUDSON, BERNARD HOUGHTON, GLYN ROWLAND, MICHAEL PEARCE, BRIAN C ARNOLD, NOSTALGIA PRESS LTD

THIS IS A polemical statement, not intended to inform, but to argue a case and try to get some sense of reality into the mass of recent writing on the purpose of the public…

Travels with a Kombi

ELIZABETH M BROWN

WHEN ZAMBIA became independent, in 1963, neither education nor libraries impinged on the lives of the large majority of people; there were a few municipal libraries, and rural…

People and events

A handsome new headquarters for Huntingdon County Library was opened on September 24 by Lord Butler. The building comprises two main elements: a two storey circular block for the…

Hallucinations

Inner cleanliness The amount of binders' and book‐sellers' hospitality accepted by librarians has in our opinion (and therefore has) reached scandalous proportions. As we are…