New Library World: Volume 74 Issue 9

Off the cuff

SO THE government's plan for admission charges to national museums and galleries, so long bandied about, is to be implemented from January next. The Paymaster General, Lord…

Comment

DON REVILL, ABRAHAM SILENCE, RONALD D CODLIN, SHEILA RAY

FOLLOWING ON from Roy Tomlinson's article (NLW July), while agreeing with much that he says I would like to enlarge on some points. I had hoped that the educational technology…

American libraries 1973

ROBERT L COLLISON

IT CAN hardly be regarded as a coincidence that 1876, the first centenary of America's independence, was a notable year in American library history. It was a year that saw the…

Libraries and leisure

DAVID GERARD

Ars est celare artem seems to be an appropriate motto for the library publishing world. At least that is the sour conclusion reached by one unsuccessful editor in search of a…

People and events

‘THE FIRST public libraries opened more than 100 years ago, and their services are now taken very much for granted. Even so, the idea that every kind of book should be available…

Blunt's Library Edition

WATNEY and Powell Ltd, of 14 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1, are offering a comprehensive monitoring of Parliamentary papers according to client's briefs: price £400 per annum…

Information centres and their uses to business

ALAN ARMSTRONG

EVERY DAY, more and more external influences bear upon decisions taken inside companies. Our entry into the eec is the simplest example.

Mad in pursuit …

ROBERT SHALLOW

FEW LIBRARIANS, one imagines, will be feeling as sorry for President Nixon as Bernard Levin is. (Though no‐one would wish the President to be ill at this time.) It is always…