New Library World: Volume 84 Issue 5

Issues

During the past few years I have attempted unsuccessfully to publish a number of articles on subjects I regard as timely. During the same period I have had eight books published…

Comment

This is the first in a series of reports on the American library world which Ruth Kerns will write for us three or four times a year.

Commonplaces

NBL branches ‐ The National Book League's pilot attempt to establish a regional branch, master‐minded by Peter Labdon and taking the form of the Ipswich & Suffolk Book League, is…

The Shallow end

Robert Shallow

Winston Churchill once wrote: ‘It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.’ An educated man would, no doubt, remember that passage from his reading of…