New Library World: Volume 87 Issue 11
Table of contents
Down my way: Pomp little circumstance
Down my way in October there was the “unique event of a Trade Union leader being inslalled by his boss” as the TU leader so described it.
Our woman in America
Library of Congress update The Urgent Supplemental Appropriations Bill for FY 1986 signed into law in July by Ronald Reagan contained an appropriation of $867 000 for the Library…
Back burner: A looking glass world
Sue Denim“Excuse me, I'm a new student here”, said Alice, approaching an elderly gentleman with a bushy m'stache and prominent teeth. “Could you show me your Catalogue?”
Shallow returns: Not drowning but waving
Robert ShallowIn the 1940s the teams of the BBC's Transatlantic quiz included such formidable intellectuals as Thomas Bodkin, Christopher Morley and Denis Brogan; and once they were joined by…