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To explain the benefits and the regulations pertaining to Jersey as a domicile for investment funds.

Provides an overview of Jersey as an international financial center followed by a detailed description of Jersey regulations applying to private funds, expert funds, listed funds, regulated investor funds, retail and other collective investment funds (CIFs), and notification-only funds. Explains fund vehicles including unit trusts, limited partnerships, and companies. Discusses taxes and fund service providers.

Jersey is one of the world’s major international finance centers, offering location and time-zone benefits; stability and reliability; tax neutrality; a stable political, fiscal and regulatory infrastructure; and highly-skilled financial-service providers.

Expert guidance from experienced investment-funds lawyers

Many librarians have hypothesized that psychological and sociological variables can be used to explain library use. This article examines the possibility of utilizing biological variables to explain library use.

The vice president of sales for a major consumer products company was all smiles as he greeted his best customer, but that smile faded quickly. “I've got stores all over the world,” the retailer said. “Yet I'm paying a different price—and getting different promotional programs—for the same product in each market. And your people can't justify the differences.” Before the VP had a chance to respond, the retailer went on: “If you don't give me a consistent price and promotional program for all my stores, I'll just buy everything from the lowest‐priced market.”

In a recent issue of the Municipal Journal there appeared a short but apparently inspired article on the subject of London Government, in which is foreshadowed another drastic and apparently imminent alteration of the system of local administration at present in operation in the Metropolis.

Aims to discover a truer meaning of genuine hospitality, addressing the issue of whether or not a better understanding can help to steer the hospitality industry in the right direction in the future.

Examines “hospitableness” and the extent to which this is a human characteristic that is innate and/or can be nurtured and developed. Presents a literature review and offers recommendations

It is suggested that the most practical way for achieving this goal is to investigate the history and origins of hospitality. Only once an understanding of hospitality's origins and its place in human nature is achieved can one expect to discover what hospitality means today, and more importantly what it will mean to those entering the industry in the future..

Makes recommendations as to how measures of hospitableness might be used in the staff recruitment process and considers personality characteristics and linkages with service delivery.

THE topics of the Library Association Conference and the election of the Council of the Association naturally absorb a great deal of attention this month. To deal with the second first: there were few novelties in the nominations, and most of the suggested new Councillors are good people; so that a fairly good Council should result. The unique thing, as we imagine, about the Library Association is the number of vice‐presidents, all of whom have Council privileges. These are not elected by the members but by the Council, and by the retiring Council; they occupy a position analagous to aldermen in town councils, and are not amenable to the choice or desires of the members at large. There are enough of them, too, if they care to be active, to dominate the Council. Fortunately, good men are usually elected, but recently there has been a tendency to elect comparatively young men to what are virtually perpetual seats on the Council, simply, if one may judge from the names, because these men occupy certain library positions. It, therefore; is all the more necessary that the electors see that men who really represent the profession get the seats that remain.

When Ernie DePropso and I were research assistants at the Institute of Public Administration at Penn State in the early 1960s, we experienced two technological miracles (or so it seemed). The first was the Thermofax copier, and the second was a Monroe calculator with a memory key that could hold one constant. The Monroe cost $1,500 at the time—today a calculator superior to the Monroe can be had for less than $5.

SOME admirable remarks by Sir Gregory Foster on the Library Association are printed in The Library Association Record for May. Deprecating certain strictures on the Association, he is reported to have said: “He felt that it should be recognized that that Association had a very difficult task. Step by step they were bringing about the organization of the profession, which until the Association was founded was entirely unorganized. To organize a profession was a difficult matter and took time. No doubt the Association has made many mistakes, but such mistakes are inevitable, having regard to the nature of the business undertaken. The business of all those interested in the Profession of Librarian‐ship is to support the L.A., and to help it discharge its duties more and more effectively.” That is well said, and represents our own views; but, within the Association, every member should reserve to himself the right of criticism. The fact that mistakes have been made is the clearest indication of the necessity for such criticism, and although we deprecate public criticism of the L.A., that association has no special reason to pride itself because it has been so eloquently defended. It is not a new association just feeling its feet; it has been struggling to find them for nearly half‐a‐century.

NANCY ALLEN is Communications Librarian at the University of Illinois, Urbana, where she has previously held the positions of Assistant Undergraduate Librarian and Reserve Book Librarian. She earned her M.S. in Library Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana. Ms. Allen's writings have appeared in American Libraries, Film Library Quarterly, and Journalism Quarterly. She is author of Film Study Collections: A Guide to Their Development and Use.