New Library World: Volume 86 Issue 6
Table of contents
Reviews
A readers' guide to fiction authors. Centre for Library and Information Studies (CLAIM), Department of Library and Information Studies, Loughborough University, Loughborough…
A Better Mousetrap
BARRY CROPPEREarly in March of this year — at just about the same time that February's issue of NLW with its editorial on “Libraries and the Visiting Firemen” and Bryan Bacon's accompanying…
Comprehensive and Efficient?: 4. Bibliographies
JFW BRYONUntil 1950, British librarianship was unimaginably handicapped by the lack of a national bibliography. Try to visualise the difficulty of providing a competent (let alone…
Electronic Publishing: 10 Questions and Answers
NEIL BOWYERWhat is Electronic Publishing? Electronic Publishing (EP) is the application of communications technology to distribute information. In the context of libraries, it typically…
Commercial & Technical
EDWIN FLEMINGInternational trade is a prerequisite to national prosperity, but at present with floating and sometimes wildly fluctuating exchange rates, the exercise is fraught with danger. It…
Alerts
WILFRED ASHWORTHAslib has issued a document commenting on the Library Association's Futures Working Party Report which will be of interest to members of both organisations. Behind all the…
The age of nefarious
Hillary PlacePerhaps because the LA Yearbook does not reveal birthdates the profession of Librarianship has been spared the astrological analyses of Gauquelin and certain quality newspapers…