New Library World: Volume 81 Issue 1

Comment

Tony Joseph, David Reid, GT Onadiran, Sarah Lawson, Gordon Brewer

LAST WEEK I gave myself a nasty shock. I had been spending an afternoon in another town doing some research in the central reference library there. I went on till past seven in…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Allan Bunch, Edwin Fleming

AS THE NEW YEAR begins—and good wishes for it from all of us at NLW—with scant evidence of any general realisation that economies mean you, not just the bloke next door, let me…

Library security systems

Jim Basker

THE SOUTH WESTERN branch of the Library Association ran two one‐day schools, at Exeter on 23 April and at Fareham on 2 May, on the subject of library security.

The Shallow end

Robert Shallow

THE Times was no sooner back with us last November than it was running the ‘My best books of the year’ feature— which is often depressing and was particularly so last year. 1979…