New Library World: Volume 84 Issue 7

Comment

In the Reference Library where I work I am occasionally asked for records of gravestones and monumental inscriptions (genealogists again!). For genealogists and family historians…

Issues

My interest in funding has moved from the practical to the theoretical aspects in line with the changes in jobs described below. The questions I now ask myself about the subject…

Commonplaces

SYD and the disabled ‐ Do you remember the International Year of Disabled People? I know we have had Information Technology Year since then and are now in Beautiful Britain Year…

Splendours and miseries

I don't think I've been mellowed in the few months of looking after NLW, but this month sees more splendours than miseries.

The Shallow end

Robert Shallow

Nearly ten years ago I wrote a sequence of rough verses (NLW May 1974) incited by something J B Priestley said at his seventy‐ninth birthday dinner. He declared that he felt, and…