New Library World: Volume 81 Issue 10

Making a fair copy

THE Periodical Publishers Association has issued a code of fair practice ‘with regard to the photocopying from periodicals’. This quaintly entitled document sets out some…

Comment

James G Ollé, James Tank, George Jefferson, David Liddle, David Reid, Colin Steele

IF YOU should ever have a mind to experience the flavour of life in the British public library service during the early decades of this century, you could not do better than turn…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Edwin Fleming, Sarah Lawson

REGULAR READERS of this column will have noted, perhaps with relief, the self‐restraint I have applied in recent months in connection with the game of cricket, not a word about…

Count your blessings

THERE is an autumnal chill in the book world and a growing feeling that for publishers, booksellers and librarians it's going to be a hard winter. I had a chat with the editor the…