New Library World: Volume 80 Issue 9
Table of contents
From the States
Barbara Palmer CasiniIT IS very agreeable to have the opportunity to write a quarterly commentary on the American library scene for New library world. At the same time, the task of covering one so…
The Bucktrout Boys
George MarvillIN MY BOYHOOD DAYS, I got my reading matter, apart from the Gem and the Magnet, from the local branch of the public library. The library was near our home, in a Lowry‐like suburb…
Librarian at large
David CheshireTHERE IS yet another film on general release with a librarian as the central figure. ‘Yet another’ as Foul play is only the most recent of a surprisingly large number of films…
Bibbleo‐news
Quentin BibbleBIBBLEOGRAPHIC Services, Inc have now been in business for over a year, and we wondered if readers of New library world might like to share some more unpublicised information. It…
The ILEA
Rosemary RaddonTHE ILEA is the body responsible for education within the London area. It is an elected committee of forty eight members with the majority of seats currently held by the Labour…
Ephemera and local studies
David ReidONE OF the most fallacious arguments in local history librarianship is the suggestion that ‘To start a local collection costs nothing’. It costs staff time, energy, thought…
Personal column
Clive BingleyA YEAR having now elapsed since I concluded the sale of Clive Bingley Ltd, and the contract of sale having contained, at my insistence, a provision that I would remain with the…
Commercial and technical
Edwin FlemingTHE ON‐GOING of Liverpool City Libraries and Companies House has now arrived at a final satisfactory conclusion it is hoped. Since last month's comments in this column, the new…
Community information
Allan BunchIT IS SAID THAT ‘charity begins at home’ but, as far as English law is concerned, charity begins in 1601 with an Act of Parliament of Elizabeth I. The preamble to this act lists…
Open column
ROYTON BROWN, County Librarian of Cambridgeshire, writes: I have recently seen the comments in the editorial of the May issue concerning the legality and morality of a county…
The Shallow end
ROBERT SHALLOW‘This Heads of Departments meeting was originally called to discuss the implications of a seven and a half per cent cut in expenditure and I must say I had some pretty sharp…