New Library World: Volume 73 Issue 8

Off the cuff

WE HEARD the other day of a large metropolitan public library system in the UK which takes one copy of NLW and circulates photocopies of its articles to senior staff on a kind of…

The gentle art of interview

KA STOCKHAM, JOHN RUSSELL, SUSAN WHATELEY, NORAGH JONES

The ‘interview’ undergone by the young prince in W F Yeames' well known painting shown on our front cover this month, was more painful than most. But job interviews are more often…

Whatever happened to whatsisname?

ROBERT SHALLOW

Pseudonymous writing is not the most popular offering in library literature at the present time. Recent comments in this journal include: ‘braying like an ass’; ‘malicious…