New Library World: Volume 90 Issue 10

Features

Ian Cowburn, David F. Cheshire, Mike Cornford, Sandra Vogel

Considered going to IFLA 89 in Paris, but as noted in leading article in August, the fee of 2,200 francs would pay for a first class run around the Hexagon with SNCF for nine days…

Columns

Shirley Day, Edwin Fleming, Allan Bunch

Ninety per cent of information handled within libraries, information units and offices is printed on paper. This comes in the form of books, journals, newsprint and miscellaneous…

Alerts

Wilfred Ashworth

American research findings suggest that genetic factors are involved in the etiology of alcoholism. This led to consideration of the possibility that genetic factors might also be…

Review

Simon Pugh

This is an interesting book, if only because it comes from South Africa which tends to be cut off professionally because of its economic, political and (alas!) its cultural…

New readers…

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It is a pleasure to see so many new students, and to have this opportunity to welcome some of you, personally, to PoSEY (the Polytechnic of…