New Library World: Volume 92 Issue 11

The Sherard Collection, University of Oxford

Roger Mills, Anne‐Marie Townsend

Describes the history and current working of one of the“world′s most interesting collections of botanical books andmanuscripts”. Notes in particular the work of William Sherard…

Columns

Terry Hanstock, Rachel Adatia, Allan Bunch, Edwin Fleming, Tony Joseph

1 January 1992 is the date that The Library Charges (England and Wales) Regulations come into force and bring the philosophy of the free market into the public library world for…

Survey on the use of UKMARC, 1991: Selected results.

Russell Sweeney

Reports on a survey to discover which organisations were usingrecords in the UKMARC format, the materials for which the format isbeing used and the processes/services which were…

Alerts

Wilfred Ashworth

Forthcoming Conference The Institute of Information Scientists announces that its 1992 Conference will be entitled “The Common Market for Information” and will be on the theme of…