New Library World: Volume 78 Issue 7

Editorial

THE REPORT of the working party on library qualifications was approved by the Council of the Library Association when it met at the end of May.

Comment

KC Harrison, John M Cox, John Smith, Norman Tomlinson, Jane Dore, David Radmore, Alan Day

IT WAS DIFFICULT to believe the tidings that have only just reached me, the news that Stanley Snaith died in Dorset on December 19 last, a few days after his 73rd birthday. The…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Clive Martin, Helen Moss

MELVYN BARNES, Borough Librarian & Arts Officer of the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (London), was asked to prepare a report for his libraries committee on the possibility…

Not my cup of chai

Robert Shallow

SOMEWHERE BEFORE the end of this two‐part article I shall mention one library and at least one book. That should justify reminiscences of a brief holiday in the Soviet Union…