New Library World: Volume 91 Issue 3
Table of contents
A Class and its Culture: A Special Library in the Ruhr
Rainer NolteniusDescribes the history and work of the Fritz Hoser Institute basedin Dortmund for the study of German and foreign working classliterature. Notes that its work centres on its…
Columns
Sue Lacey Bryant, David F. Cheshire, Allan Bunch, Edwin Fleming“‘Personable’ is management‐ese for ‘crumpet’”. Thus observed an old friend late last Sunday; much too late indeed for the subsequent dialogue about equal opportunities, in which…
Reviews
Simon PughIn Information: The Key to Effective Management published by MCB University Press (1989, ISBN 0 86176 443 9), Bob Norton and Malcolm Peel argue that the role of information within…
ASSIA: A Valuable Source of Reference or an Expensive and Unwieldy Irrelevancy?
Victoria FenertyDescribes the aims and work of the Applied Social Science Index andAbstracts (ASSIA) as providing a clear path to information for mostresearch questions in social sciences in a…
Alerts
Wilfred AshworthThe United Nations General Assembly has declared 1990 as International Literacy Year. Activities in the UK are being handled and coordinated by ALBSU, the Adult Literacy and Basic…