New Library World: Volume 90 Issue 3

Features

Wilfred Ashworth, Tom Featherstone

A quite unexpected coincidence of a great pile of copy shouting to be published and a complete absence of anything I feel like shouting about, means a remission from the pain of…

Columns

Raymond Bérard, David F. Cheshire, Shirley Day, Allan Bunch, Edwin Fleming

This book by Rod Cowley — ALS: A Guide for Librarians and System Managers — plunges me into some perplexity. For what is the object of this series of which we seem to have here…

Alerts

Wilfred Ashworth

The Online Search Centre of the British Library has produced a concise but informative introductory guide to equipment and search techniques for online searching in the fields of…

Rough justice

The season of prizes and acceptance speeches stretches endlessly from Booker to BAFTA, the Oscars, the Emmies. If there were any destiny working out some grand plan, Salman…