New Library World: Volume 81 Issue 11

Editorial

THE LONG heralded ABLIB/IIS/LA conference in Sheffield is now but a memory and another tome, soon to be added to the shelves of staff libraries, which should be at least dipped…

Comment

Gail Sheridan, John Hall, Alan Day, Margot Lindsay

UNLIKE SOME of the expenditures necessary to become more efficient, buying a small business system entails many more alternatives to obtain the best value for money. It is…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Edwin Fleming, Allan Bunch, Sarah Lawson, Kate Hills

NEXT JANUARY, it will be ten years since I acquired The library world from W H Smith & Son Ltd. Next July, NEW LIBRARY WORLD may be ten years old.

The Shallow end

Robert Shallow

THE Publications Division of the Directorate‐General for Information and Public Relations of the Secretariat of the European Parliament: now, apart from the fact that it must beat…