New Library World: Volume 91 Issue 3

A Class and its Culture: A Special Library in the Ruhr

Rainer Noltenius

Describes the history and work of the Fritz Hoser Institute basedin Dortmund for the study of German and foreign working classliterature. Notes that its work centres on its…

Columns

Sue Lacey Bryant, David F. Cheshire, Allan Bunch, Edwin Fleming

“‘Personable’ is management‐ese for ‘crumpet’”. Thus observed an old friend late last Sunday; much too late indeed for the subsequent dialogue about equal opportunities, in which…

Reviews

Simon Pugh

In Information: The Key to Effective Management published by MCB University Press (1989, ISBN 0 86176 443 9), Bob Norton and Malcolm Peel argue that the role of information within…

ASSIA: A Valuable Source of Reference or an Expensive and Unwieldy Irrelevancy?

Victoria Fenerty

Describes the aims and work of the Applied Social Science Index andAbstracts (ASSIA) as providing a clear path to information for mostresearch questions in social sciences in a…

Alerts

Wilfred Ashworth

The United Nations General Assembly has declared 1990 as International Literacy Year. Activities in the UK are being handled and coordinated by ALBSU, the Adult Literacy and Basic…