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PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION CHANGES COURSE AGAIN
ALAN DAYIT is possible to look upon continuing education from a number of different perspectives. Some regard it as a method of personal self‐development, and what evidence already exists…
PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOKSTOCKS: NEW STANDARDS OR NO STANDARDS?
LIONEL DURBIDGEThis article is prompted by a concern for both quantity and quality of public library bookstocks. Twenty years ago, the Bourdillon report thought fit to focus concern for public…
TRAINING NON‐PROFESSIONAL STAFF: A QUESTIONNAIRE APPROACH
MARGARET M. COUTTSThis report on methods recently adopted at Glasgow University Library to give formal training in reader service describes a seminar included in a training programme for members of…
PAYING FOR THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: THE ECBB
BERNARD BARRHOW rich does one have to be to qualify as poor? This Irishism has to be asked at the outset because ECBB, as the work under review will no doubt become known officially, is bound…
MAGAZINE STAND
NO better indication of the growing consumer interest in video systems in Britain exists than the number of monthly magazines available on the subject. Excluding journals such as…
AS I KNEW IT: THE LIBRARY WORLD
K.C. HARRISONOther administrators of distinction have edited professional journals ably over several years. None has served under four companies over a decade as did the former City Librarian…