People and events

Abstract

UP AT BOSTON SPA they've decided to try to change the colloquial abbreviation used for ‘The British Library, Lending Division’ from the current ‘BLL’—which Donald Urquhart promoted because it tied up with the former NLL—since they find that ‘outsiders, and even on occasion insiders’, writes Press Officer Denys Parsons, think it means ‘British Lending Library’.

Citation

(1974), "People and events", New Library World, Vol. 75 No. 10, pp. 219-221. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb038222