New Library World: Volume 75 Issue 11
Table of contents
Off the cuff
IT SEEMS THAT librarians, in common with many other forms of mankind, do not learn from history. One of the more interesting sessions of the recent La Public Librarians'…
Towards the education of librarians
HT HOOKWAYWHAT SHOULD A keynote speaker say on an occasion such as this? Particularly a speaker such as myself—almost totally ignorant of every subject to be discussed in your later…
The Highfield Community Library, Belfast
WJ MARTINDuring the past five‐and‐a‐half years of civil strife in Northern Ireland, the entire social fabric has been subjected to enormous strain. No one, man, woman or child, has escaped…
People and events
FULL CIRCLE? The Danish public library service is one of the most developed systems in the world. From unlimited borrowings of books, loans of records and artworks, to concerts…
Industrial library news
ALAN ARMSTRONG‘MASSIVE, impressive but human, interesting and worthwhile’. This is the description of the Special Libraries of America annual conference this summer, given by Johan van Halm…
‘Scribble, scribble, scribble…’
ROBERT SHALLOWTHE Writers directory 1974–76 ‘lists more than 18,000 living authors of fiction and/or non‐fiction in English.’ It is something of an achievement to receive 18,000 completed…