New Library World: Volume 74 Issue 6

Off the cuff

FIRST IMPRESSIONS of the long awaited DES thoughts on the problems of the public library service following local government re‐organisation appear later in this issue.

Comment

COLIN STEELE, JON ELLIOTT, DONALD DAVINSON, JOHN SMITH, DAVID SMITH, GEOFFREY BROOK, GA GIBSON

IN THE March 1973 issue of NEW LIBRARY WORLD Dr H T Hookway commented that the new head of the British Library must be first and foremost an administrator and a manager, a man for…

Reaching out to the disadvantaged

WILLIAM J MARTIN

A RECENT public opinion poll placed politicians and estate agents bottom of a list of professions ranked in terms of public esteem.

Planning information: an interim report

BRENDA WHITE

PEOPLE WHO are involved with information in relation to the practice of town and country planning in Britain, have to beware of a dichotomy which exists in the planner's meaning…

People and events

MRS ANN DAVINSON has been appointed as Branch Librarian of the newly opened Barlby Branch of the East Riding County Library. Mrs Davinson has previously worked with Middlesbrough…

Industrial library news

ALAN ARMSTRONG

IN AUGUST 1971 the Unsolicited Goods and Services Act became law. One of its intentions was to protect companies against the activities of inertia‐selling bogus‐directory firms…

The no‐library association

ROBERT SHALLOW

THERE WAS a lot of tutt‐tutting among librarians in January when the Times and the Guardian reported the breakup of the libraries of the miners' institutes. The philistine…