New Library World: Volume 74 Issue 4
Table of contents
Off the cuff
SLIGHTLY‐WORRIED public librarians have found something other than the weather to talk about when they meet.
Comment
PHILIP HEPWORTH, NORMAN TOMLINSON, DON LOCKETT, JON FINNEY, MICHAEL DARVELL, AP RIDLER‐INNES, BRENDA WILLIAMS‐WYNNNLW is to be congratulated on its promptly‐secured interview with Harold Hookway in a sparkling March number which compares very favourably indeed with the January LAR that I…
Information services in social welfare
MAURICE B LINETHE SOCIAL SERVICES have seen big developments in recent years. In particular, reorganisation of local authority social service departments, and the concept of corporate planning…
University library buildings: a view from Greece
EVLAMBIA PANAGIOTOUAFTER a university education in Greece, the English university scene comes as something of a surprise. English universities are small by Greek standards; Manchester, the biggest…
People and events
THE London & Home Counties Branch of the Library Association is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year, and fortuitously the jubilee falls on the same day of the week as…
Industrial library news
ALAN ARMSTRONGTHREE simple and low cost methods to improve the supply of books are proposed in a recent article by John Prime, a King's Lynn bookseller.
Who's who?
ROBERT SHALLOWWHO IS in Who's who—and why? For every reader who replaces this considerable fistful on the shelves with a satisfied air, there are a dozen or so who look disappointed or…