New Library World: Volume 77 Issue 2

Comment

Brian Griffin, Fazlul Alam, Alan Duckworth, Don Revill, Bernard I Palmer

FOR GOOD and ill, most of my first adventures with books—the events that really started me off on the Great Paper Chase—happened thanks to some local library or other. Things…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, John Buchanan, Elaine Kempson

IF YOU WERE to ask why ‘the treatment’ for (the London Borough of) Sutton's new central library, there are two reason's. First, Sutton's Chief, Roy Smith, was on like a flash to…

The Prison Service Library

Richard Turbet

J D HENDRY, Renfrew's Chief Librarian, writes:

End of the Old Imprudent Year

Robert Shallow

THE PECULIAR calendar of publication of this and other monthly journals makes anything approaching actualité impossible. To appear seasonable in the December issue, we have to go…