New Library World: Volume 76 Issue 7

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MIKE PEARCE, KGE HARRIS, RONALD BENGE, MW HILL, A DUCKWORTH, MAUREEN DUFFY, MELVYN BARNES

IT WAS THE then Duke of Gloucester who, observing the said Mr Gibbon (of Roman Empire fame) writing, said, to quote as accurately as my reference source will allow, ‘Another…

Three libraries in the Comtat

MARIANNE CALMANN

THE COMTAT is an area of France which stretches from Avignon to the Mont Ventoux eastward, down to Cavaillon in the south, and north to Vaison‐la‐Romaine. It has not existed as a…

People and events

I DID NOT, in fact, spend the second half of May prone under a pastis barrel in South Brittany, as I forecast in the last issue, but only because the stuff does not, apparently…

Tic‐tac technical · industrial and commercial library news

ELAINE KEMPSON

YOU ARE probably wondering what has happened to Industrial Library News. In taking over from Alan Armstrong I should like to broaden the coverage of these columns to cover current…

This, that and the other

ROBERT SHALLOW

WITH ALL DUE respect and reverence to the Bard, it's not a tide in the affairs of men which may lead to fortune, but rather a confluence of currents. Spotting these flows and…