New Library World: Volume 75 Issue 8

Off the cuff

A GROUP FROM the Loughborough School of Librarianship, writing in the LA Record for May, criticizes the Library Association strongly for abdication of professional responsibility…

Comment

DONALD DAVINSON, DON REVILL, CAROLYN PROSSER, RALPH NWAMEFOR, T BRIMELOW, GW WILLIAMS, AJ WOOD

THE ANNUAL ORGY of reference‐writing for departing students is on the wane now. The well‐worn platitudes are about to go into dock for their 10,000‐word service, to be ready to…

People and events

NORMAN BESWICK WRITES: Evidence that the multi‐media resource centre concept is part of an international movement was apparent from a recent ‘meeting of experts called by Unesco…

Industrial library news

ALAN ARMSTRONG

As no one has sent me any industrial library news this month, I am substituting this, the first of two articles on information transfer. In this article, the author examines the…

Punch a public librarian or two

ROBERT SHALLOW

THERE HAVE ALWAYS been nuisances to blight the lives of those who work in public libraries. Every service point has always had its quota of the nasty‐natured—the short‐tempered…