New Library World: Volume 78 Issue 9

Editorial

EDITING is a job that masochists do. The rewards are small and private; the failures are large and public, by definition.

The graduate profession

Jean Steward

SO LIBRARIANSHIP is to become an all graduate profession. The Library Association has at last turned its attention to our lack of status and this is its answer. It must be seen as…

Commonplaces

M Joy Lewis, Audrey W Hill, Alan Day, KC Harrison, Clive Bingley, Helen Moss

A BIBLIOGRAPHY may seem to many to be as dry as dust and I must admit to having subscribed to that view about some bibliographies in the past. This is one, for a number of…

The diary of Digby Slingsby, author

Robert Shallow

MONDAY: I think our postmen are wonderful. Another rugful of rubbish came plopping through the slit this morning—all reminders, threats or offers. The letter from my so‐called…