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Public Libraries in Hamburg: a Survey
C.W. BLACKDuring October, 1959, the British Council's representative in Germany asked for a team of experts from Glasgow to study and discuss with the German authorities the cultural life…
Melvil Dewey And His Famous School
R.D. MACLEODNow and again a book relating to library interests comes to hand that deserves special notice, and such a work is the New York State Library School Register, 1887–1926, which was…
Library News from Kelso
PAUL KAUFMAN“If ever I can afford to buy books”—. In this familiar strain the minister of the little parish of Stitchel wrote in his diary for 8 April, 1775. To the end of his life George…
James Duff Brown After Fifty Years
ERNEST A. SAVAGEIn the library field “who fears to speak of ‘ 98”—1898?, By that year 390 authorities had adopted the Libraries Acts. Public librarians had a permanent majority in the Library…
“The Expense of Spirit. .”
W. KERSLEY HOLMESIs it just the result of untidiness that Milton, Browning and Kipling's collected verse stand side by side on my bookshelves? In any case, instinct tells me that they are not…