New Library World: Volume 78 Issue 11

Comment

WA Munford, Roger M Shrigley

IT OCCURRED to me the other day that I have been using public libraries since 1920, beginning my association with them on a false declaration of age. I had not reached the minimum…

An interview with Eric Moon

Frank Atkinson

ERIC MOON is this year's President of the American Library Association, having been an ala Councillor from 1965 to 1972.

Scott of ‘The countryman’

David Gunston

A NOTE arrives from Crispin Gill, present editor of The countryman, that unique rural quarterly that like so many magazines these days is not quite what it was, but which this…

A national information system?

Helen Moss

THE 51ST annual conference of Aslib was held this year from September 20th to 23rd at the University of Lancaster. The modern campus, in its attractive setting some two miles…

For what we deserve

Norman Tomlinson

I CONCLUDED the article on ‘Not a trade union’ in the July NLW, with the suggestion that there must be a complete change from ‘the ill‐considered LA policies and actions of the…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Helen Moss

SOMEWHAT ENERVATED, this day, to receive in the same post letters addressed to ‘Clive Bongley Ltd’, ‘Clair Bingley Ltd’, and a tearsheet advertisement circulated by our Australian…

The Shallow end

Robert Shallow

TWENTY‐SEVEN YEARS ago we had the Library Association Conference in London. I say ‘we’ because I wangled two half days off during the week and attended two sessions. On the…