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Odds and Ends: A Recommended Course for Library Schools
Caroline E. WerkleyTHE COURSE I would most like to teach in a school of library science is one very dear to my heart. I would call it ‘Odds and Ends’, but since odds are that no library school would…
Books of Words: A Story of Dictionaries
L.D.M. MackenzieON TUESDAY, 3 December 1878, there was held within the premises of Mr Dowell at 18 George Street, Edinburgh, an auction of the library of Andrew Jervise, Esq., F.S.A.(Scot.)…
Pride and Prejudice
Daniel HayIT WAS ONLY A SHORT TIME AGO, when an interview with the local press brought out the fact that the joint bibliothécariat of my predecessor and myself spanned a period of almost…
Pocket Editions before Penguins
James SpeirsIF THE BOOK‐BUYERS OF YESTERDAY were to return to the shops, what surprises would be ‘in store’ for them! Paperbacks! Thousands and thousands, colourful, lightweight, pocket‐size…
The Craft of Writing
Ivy RussellWE ARE NEVER too old to learn. This should be the motto of every writer, for when the mind of a man or woman is closed to suggestion or criticism, his days as an author are…
Am I a Scotchman?
Tom ThomsonHOW MANY OF US—prickly Scots—have been offended to hear ourselves described as Scotch? Scotch, we inform our imagined denigrators, is an adjective reserved for the description of…
Life in the Archives
Kathleen ClayANY DAY in the archives department of a public library could bring a fascinating discovery, either by the archivist, or by a student engaged there on research. To the layman our…