New Library World: Volume 77 Issue 5
Table of contents
Comment
On top of our staffing difficulties we've had a two‐month embargo on book orders dictated by the City Treasurer, we've closed earlier and opened later and the electricity supply…
Commonplaces
To some who cast their bread upon the waters, it comes back as buttered toast! Thus might be described an enjoyable day for my wife and myself in March as guests in Wiltshire of…
The librarian as manager
Anthony HolbrookFurther education in Britain is beginning a period of severe economic restraint, with colleges being obliged to operate on static or even falling levels of finance and staffing…
The Shallow end
Robert ShallowMonday: I hate Monday mornings, all publishers, literary editors of news‐papers and magazines, most so‐called fellow authors, the telly and my grasping agent Fiona—probably in…