New Library World: Volume 79 Issue 2

Comment

Peter Labdon

THE FIRST MEETING of the LA Council in each year confirms the nomination of the new president by arranging his investiture with the badge of office by the outgoing incumbent. Last…

Comment

Mike Glossop, David Radmore

A NOTABLE FEATURE of the changes which have occurred in librarianship in recent years is a reassertion of the importance of the individual. Within the organisational context…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Helen Moss

WAS IT ONLY the pure in heart (such as myself) who found the Great Christmas Holiday Shutdown the biggest bore of the year? Four days of actual Christmas lay‐off had me pining to…

British university libraries today

SJ Teague

IN RECENT YEARS, expenditure on university libraries has taken up a slowly increasing percentage of total recurrent grant of United Kingdom universities, although the trend is now…

The Shallow end

Robert Shallow

WILLIAM BELOE, in the year 1803, was appointed Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum. The department in those days also included prints and drawings and, unfortunately for…