New Library World: Volume 79 Issue 4

Comment

Alan Duckworth, Margot Lindsay, Bernard Palmer, Wilfred Ashworth

WITH ‘STAR WARS’ established as the brightest phenomenon since the skateboard, and inter‐galactic adventures all the rage, perhaps it is not a bad time to speculate on the…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Helen Moss, Clive Martin, Allan Bunch

I AM EARLY on parade this month, dear readers, because during the first week in March, when I should have constructed this column, I had a series of important meetings in a…

Library security

Don Revill

APART FROM ESTIMATES of book losses there appears to be little or no information available on the value of items stolen from libraries. This article is intended to provide an…

The Shallow end

Robert Shallow

IT IS A number of years now since BBC television put out a ‘documentary’ about the spaghetti harvest in southern Italy. In the context of the heavy current affairs programme…