New Library World: Volume 78 Issue 6

Editorial

Clive Bingley

THIS IS my last dissertation as Editor of NEW LIBRARY WORLD, after upwards of six years in a job which I did not consciously either seek or assume. Having unexpectedly become the…

Comment

Peter Jackaman, Paul Cook, Colston Hartley, John Smith, Alan Duckworth, Susan Salt, JS Parker

THE RELATIONSHIP of a library with those it serves and the writers and other communicators who form its sources is both interesting and complex; and one in which many facets…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Helen Moss

I AM INDEBTED to Verbatim: the language quarterly, February 1977 issue, for the information that the measuring unit of female beauty is something called the milli‐helen, which is…

All things to all nuts

Robert Shallow

ANYONE WHO HAS worked in public libraries for a number of years knows that every library has its quota of persistent, perverse, time‐wasting members. We also know that these…