New Library World: Volume 77 Issue 11

Comment

Roger Stoakley, JR Haylock, Peter Jackaman, David Gerard, Norman Tomlinson, JW Ellison, Claudia Molenda

THE RECENT SQUEEZE on local government expenditure has highlighted the dissarray that exists in the public library service in England and Wales, and the extraordinary measures…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Elaine Kempson

FORTY YEARS have elapsed since the idea was first mooted; now it looks like happening. The Booksellers Association is to establish a UK Book Trade Promotion House.

Home truths

Robert Shallow

ONE SUNDAY afternoon, some thirty or so years ago, I was standing in Trafalgar Square with a few politically conscious friends and several thousand other people. We were attending…