New Library World: Volume 80 Issue 12

Council report

Wilfred Ashworth

ALTHOUGH IT was in November that council held its last meeting of the year there were no fireworks. Indeed, your representatives settled down with meek devotion to a…

Comment

Barbara Palmer Casini, Alan Day, John Newton‐Davies, Tony Preston

LIBRARY NETWORKS are a very hot topic on the US library scene these days. Nearly every library periodical one picks up seems to contain news about changes in OCLC, RLG/RLIN, and…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Edwin Fleming, Sarah Lawson

CHRISTMAS is coming, and the year is nearly done. On the whole, a good year, I think—at any rate for realism. No doubt we shall have our (by now) customary industrial fun and…

The Shallow end

Robert Shallow

FOLLOWING last month's directions to librarians in general, chief librarians and reference librarians, we conclude with guidance to a few more colleagues.