New Library World: Volume 75 Issue 6
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Comment
BRIAN GRIFFIN, ALAN DAY, LEWIS FOREMAN, MIKE ASSER, DF CHESHIREI MUST THANK David Gerard for responding so warmly to my review of Mr Murison's The public library in Human world 13; and I must thank Mr Murison for responding to the double…
Interview
CLIVE BINGLEYAS WE REPORTED last month, successor‐designate to Hugh Barry as Secretary of the Library Association is R P Hilliard, at present the association's Finance Officer, who will take…
The impact of European patent development
BERNARD HOUGHTONNOT MANY LIBRARIANS will be familiar with the British patent system, and even fewer with the rapidly evolving European system. This is unfortunate: the grant of letters patent…
People and events
THE London & Home Counties Branch of the la reports a gratifying response to its attempts last year to attract a wider list of applications for its biennial Senior Librarians…
Industrial library news
ALAN ARMSTRONGTHERE IS a very old opening, usually to bad jokes, which goes something like: ‘What do you want first, the good news or the bad news … ?’ Sad to say, this format has appeared in…
The case of the co‐opted committeeman
ROBERT SHALLOWThe periodical New society has been going for some twelve years and has just passed the six hundredth issue mark. Arithmetically minded readers will calculate that it is a weekly…