New Library World: Volume 73 Issue 18
Table of contents
Off the cuff
THERE'S some fully‐justified grumbling going on at the moment among Aslib members at the inflexible application, twice recently, of a basically sensible rule.
Comment
JON ELLIOTT, PHILLIP HEPWORTH, KH JONES, GODFREY THOMPSON, JACK DOVE, DON REVILLTHE reorganisation chickens have come home to roost with the recent white paper Report of the Working Party on Association Services (the Harrison report). Its seven pages are a…
A new library money spinner
RALPH HYDESUDDENLY, in these days of war‐waging against planners, developers, and demolition contractors, local history has come into its own. In almost any part of the country you care to…
People and events
A NEW EVENT was added to the Library Association's annual calendar when for the first time, on November 3, newly elected Fellows received their Fellowship Certificates in person…
Industrial library news
ALAN ARMSTRONGLAST WEEK I was asked to go and buy two publications. This gave me a chance to visit GILLIAN CLEGG, librarian of the advertising trade paper ‘Campaign’. She had won the 1971 Sir…
Abused any good books lately?
THIS BUSINESS of writing a regular column is a very idiosyncratic exercise. I mention this so that those colleagues who have suggested to me, via this journal, many interesting…