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Another Look at Eppie Elrick
James KiddEPPIE ELRICK, William P. Milne's Aberdeenshire tale of the '15, first appeared in serial form in the Buchan Observer, running from 19 October 1954 to 6 September 1955. It was then…
The IFLA Conference, 1967
L.M. HarrodATTENDANCE at only two or three days of IFLA's five‐day conference held at Toronto in August is enough to convince one of the great—and potentially much greater—value of this…
A Question of Language
Moira BurgessONE GROWS UP, so to speak, with the jargon of the profession: soon there is nothing odd in describing a morning‐and‐evening turn of duty by the phrase, ‘I'm split today’…
Cards across the Water
William ReadyEVERYBODY AGREES that shared cataloguing is a good thing, but until recently nobody has done very much about it. I remember my first encounter with it was the regional catalogue…
A Scourge of English Librarians
William Ashford KellyTHE BODLEIAN LIBRARY at the beginning of the eighteenth century is described in some detail in the diary kept by Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach during his visit to England in…
The Stripdex Catalogue
Peter StephenTHE Library Association Record of April 1962 carried an article describing an interesting experiment with the ‘stripdex’ form of catalogue in the library of the University of…
Gardening Bookshelf
Barbara BrillMY CHILDHOOD WAS SPENT in an upstairs flat in a London suburb and apart from enjoyable days during the First World War watching my father cultivate his allotment I grew up with…