New Library World: Volume 81 Issue 8

Comment

Liz Chapman, David Reid, Brian Griffin, Quentin Bibble, Graham Barnett, Wilfred Ashworth

WHEN YOU meet people for the first time and they ask what you do, do you ever hesitate about telling them you're a librarian? Do you ever qualify your self‐description with some…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Edwin Fleming, Kate Hills

SINCE THEY ARE now in possession of a modest amount of my own money each year, it was with more attention than I have devoted in the past to its predecessors that I studied the…

Piffle

Robert Shallow

LAST MONTH I wrote about the pressures brought to bear on publishers in order to achieve a blameless blandness in their products through no hint of race, sex or class bias; and I…