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LOCAL AUTHORITY MANAGEMENT STRUCTURES AND THE PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICE
STEVE ROGERSThe starting point for this paper is research undertaken for the British Library by the author and Margaret Lomer during 1981 and 1982. The principal reasons for carrying out that…
THE LEISURE SERVICES CONTEXT
GEORGE LOVELLAll public libraries have an important leisure function. For those serving socially stable communities of moderate size, communities without pressing problems of deprivation but…
OUTREACH
W.J. MARTINThe appearance of a paper on outreach in an issue devoted to practical achievement might strike some readers as odd. For one thing, outreach as a theoretical concept can appear…
FINANCE
PETER LABDONWhatever continuity of financial policy existed in the United Kingdom between 1974–5 and 1983–4, nationally or locally, was imposed by circumstances largely beyond the control…
THE ALA PLANNING PROCESS: THE SHEFFIELD EXPERIENCE
ROBERT ATKINSProbably few members of the library profession in Britain will know of a project carried out in late 1978 and the first half of 1979 to test the applicability of the ALA Planning…