New Library World: Volume 92 Issue 6

Columns

Verena Thompson

Providing a service which reflects community needs requires data collection. The Public Libraries and Museums Act of 1964 requires local authorities to provide a comprehensive…

Reviews

Norman Roberts and Tania Konn, Library Association Publishing, 1991, 208 pp., £24.50 (LA members £19.60), ISBN 0–85157–452–1

English Literature and Literature in English: Repackaged and Anthologised by Oxford University Press

Stuart James

Notes that for whatever market – educational or general– low price paperback classic series have continued to expandrapidly and in the UK the market is dominated by Penguin and…

Alerts

Wilfred Ashworth

The Librarian's Christian Fellowship has taken the opportunity offered by the Library Association's “Under One Umbrella” training weekend to arrange a service of Thanksgiving and…

Databases, Donors and Development

Paul McConnell

Discusses how developing countries, representing the poorest 75 percent of the world′s population, ensure that they too are able to benefitfrom this “Information Age”…