New Library World: Volume 81 Issue 6

Comment

Barbara Palmer Casini, Graham Rowbotham, Helen Edmonds, James Herring

IF I sometimes seem to be obsessed with: library legislation issues, no doubt this is the result of my having become a public library trustee and having been forced to deal with…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Edwin Fleming, Sarah Lawson

IT WAS in the mid‐1970s when, having been in the habit for a year or so previously of commenting on public library authorities' annual reports in a partially analytical manner, I…

Library lit of the 1970s

James G Ollé

IN DECEMBER 1969, I reviewed for the Library world the library literature of the 1960s'. I remember hoping, when I wrote that I might have the chance to perform a similar office…

The Shallow end

Robert Shallow

‘ARE WE all here? Good — well, I've no need to ask why your customary sorrowful countenances are so sickeningly smug this wet and windy a.m. You and your cosy libraries are not…