New Library World: Volume 74 Issue 10

Comment

BRENDA WHITE, SHEILA WILSON, ELLA MCNEILL, PAT LAYZELL WARD, MURIEL FRANSELLA, DOROTHY BURT, SUSAN BEALES

FIRST THINGS FIRST. A self‐respecting research project must be baptised with a good acronym. Indeed, without this attribute it cannot be taken seriously, and it is not stretching…

Libraries and leisure—part 2

DAVID GERARD

It would be tedious to summarise the papers in turn, for somehow life escapes that way. Instead of an editor's reduction, it seemed best to quote passages in the original words of…

People and events

APPARENTLY, informed gossip has it that the transfer of the Library Association's own library to the British Library is all agreed (at the time of writing) bar the actual…

Industrial library news

ALAN ARMSTRONG

BEING HELPFUL to people is insufficient motivation to speed the momentum of industrial librarianship. What is needed is more personal commitment to the profession.

‘A pint, a gin‐and tonic, and the Statesman's Year Book, please’

ROBERT SHALLOW

SMALL COUNTRY TOWNS are still, in spite of recent changes, one of the pleasures of holidaying in Britain. Much of their individuality is now hidden behind a uniformity of signs to…