New Library World: Volume 77 Issue 9

Comment

Bernard Houghton, Don Revill, Lesley Grayson, Nazir Ahmad

THE COMPUTER was first applied to the processing of bibliographical information in 1961 when the Chemical abstracts service (CAS) produced Chemical titles (CT), a…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Elaine Kempson

THOSE FEW OF YOU, comparatively, on the receiving end of the much‐heralded £1000m cuts in government spending announced in mid‐July needn't feel lonely for long. The cuts were…

Serving users in hard times

Maurice B Line

IN CHOOSING the topic of ‘Serving users in hard times’, I am thinking not merely of Britain's current economic problems, but of problems that may be faced by libraries in many…

Sibthorp was right

Robert Shallow

WELL, THAT'S what Thrasher said in his last letter to me: Colonel Sibthorp, the honourable and gallant member of parliament for Lincoln, was right in opposing the 1850 Public…