New Library World: Volume 76 Issue 12

Comment

MIKE PEARCE, NORMAN TOMLINSON, FRANK WINDRUSH, PAUL SYKES

DURING THE twelve days of Christmas, between the King's speech and Twelfth Night, after the chocolate smoking set had been consumed, though not in flames and smoke, and before the…

Commonplaces

CLIVE BINGLEY, ELAINE KEMPSON

IN AMERICA the book world is bemoaning the fact that us internal postal rates were hiked up yet again in July for the special ‘library rate’ and the ‘fourth‐class book rate’—the…

Library education in Russia

DONALD DAVINSON

AS PART OF a three‐man delegation, with Philip Sewell (as leader) and Eric Clough, to the Soviet Union in May this year under the Anglo‐Soviet cultural agreement, a number of…

A personal statement

ROBERT SHALLOW

I AM DEEPLY grateful to the editor for his indulgence in permitting me to make a statement at this particular time. The events of the recent past have been a nightmare for me, yet…