New Library World: Volume 77 Issue 12
Table of contents
Authors in the news
Brian GriffinJOHN SMITH'S assertion that librarianship is ‘getting the right book to the right reader at the right time’ (NLW, July), and Maurice Line's declaration that ‘the sole aim of…
Lost illusions
Alan Duckworth‘'E'S ASLEEP,’ said Jock and nodded towards the enquiry desk. Ciderman looked up from the evening paper, which he now knew by heart, having already that day memorised the Daily…
Running dogs in the ref?
Malcolm J CampbellLIBRARIANS generally are so accustomed to the notion of their activities being a Good Thing, altruistic even, that it may come as something of a shock when the justification for…
Personal column
Clive BingleyWHITHER OSTI? I ruminate, as this year ends and 1977 dawns. When the British Library was formed, and the incorporation of the then Office for Scientific & Technical Information…
Commercial and technical
Elaine KempsonCORRESPONDING with a widening of the scope of the Heating and Ventilating Research Association to become the Building Services Research and Information Association, there is an…
Open column
FRANK COLE, Director of Libraries & Arts, Camden, writes: In April 1976 you allowed me to comment on the March editorial which had expressed romantic views on fines in public…
Resources for courses
THE LIBRARIAN in further education and the public sector of higher education has but few bargaining counters in order to argue for improved library services. Potentially his…
The Shallow end: Deep down, he's really Shallow
John FinesI FREQUENTLY HAVE the privilege of visiting the household of Robert Shallow, and I find pleasure in the robust chatter, only half‐humorous nostalgia, intellectual stimulus and…