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How the Newspaper Library does it
GEOFFREY WHATMOREHow often, I wonder, does the reader look up from his favourite newspaper to consider how it is done? Those ingenious comparisons, the revealing statistics, the background to the…
It's a Battlefield
J.W. BUCHANANPerhaps it was because I had recently been reading Swift's Battle of the Books, but what I know for certain is that I shall always laugh at those people who tell me that libraries…
Are there too many Books?
CHARLES H. MORRISShortly after you so kindly in‐vited me to speak to you I noticed on my bookshelves a scarce book published by the Oxford University Press in 1903 entitled A Chart of Oxford…
Quality versus Quantity
J. HARLEY“Lies from the specialist,” sings the bard, “Give t'old ones a newer twist”; and in addition, of course, a really good lie needs plenty of facts and figures to make it thoroughly…
Crime Stories and the Fiction Question
J. MILLER, M. MILLERMr. Robert F. Ashby's article in the Autumn number on the provision of fiction in libraries encourages us, as consumers who are not librarians, to make a suggestion about the…