New Library World: Volume 73 Issue 11
Table of contents
Off the cuff
IT IS disturbing to see, tucked away in the March issue of OST1 newsletter, the first intimation of a reduction in the osti grant to Aslib for the three‐year period 1972–74.
Librarians and their maps: a look at some of the problems
Ralph HydeUntil quite recently librarians on the whole were ill‐equipped for being custodians of maps. Even now one fears this is less rarely the case than it ought to be. Hair‐raising…
What future for carto‐bibliography?
RALPH HYDE‘CARTO‐BIBLIOGRAPHY’ must surely be just about the ugliest term in a cartographer's vocabulary, but to its inventor, Sir Henry George Fordham, it represented something of the very…
Original or facsimile
RH FAIRCLOUGHTHE PASSION FOR collecting is an irresistible human trait and surprise is no longer aroused when one sees on television the range of objects people amass, ranging from fine…
Progress in the map world
SARAH TYACKE, HELEN WALLIS500 YEARS OF THE PRINTED MAP: a forthcoming exhibition at the British Museum, June—December 1972.
Automated cartography in the Ordnance Survey
RC GARDINER‐HILLWHEN THE PROBLEMS and possibilities of automation first started to be discussed seriously amongst cartographers, the thinking in the Ordnance Survey was largely concerned with the…
People and events
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA proudly stands on the shelves of our libraries, daily informing our readers. Informing? … Or misleading?
Three yards a penny!
ROBERT SHALLOWIN THE LATE 1950's and early 1960's when the search for identity was a national pastime, some librarians found it difficult to concentrate on their work because they were totally…