New Library World: Volume 83 Issue 7

Comment

Roman Iwaschkin, David Reid, Alan Day, Jim Francis, Stuart Hannabuss

FOR MOST of us, public library history usually amounts to scarcely more than rapidly dimming recollections of a handful of acts and commissions; dry facts memorised during library…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Allan Bunch, Edwin Fleming

PETER LABDON, of the calibre of whose editorship of this organ during the past five years you should be thoroughly appreciative, is to become the Hon Treasurer of the Library…

The Shallow end

WITH the arrival of summer Uncle Shallow's thoughts invariably turn to visions of tranquil sun‐filled days by the sea. Over a lunch‐time drink, whilst we waited for the nurse who…