The library services we provide today are built on the skill,energy and vision of earlier generations of librarians; yet most ofthese pioneers remain unknown. Examines the career…
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The library services we provide today are built on the skill, energy and vision of earlier generations of librarians; yet most of these pioneers remain unknown. Examines the career of Butler Wood, librarian at Bradford for 50 years, 41 of them as chief librarian. In addition to the successful development of a major municipal library, he developed art gallery and museum services; was a founder member and contributor to many literary, historical and cultural organizations; he influenced the development of reference and rural libraries; and he contributed to the growth of the library profession itself. An appreciation of this visionary scholar/ administrator can provide inspiration today.
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Bradford was a small, dapper man, dressed immaculately in expensive suits, and in the rose season never without a perfect specimen in his button‐hole. He walked with his feet…
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Bradford was a small, dapper man, dressed immaculately in expensive suits, and in the rose season never without a perfect specimen in his button‐hole. He walked with his feet turned out in a very characteristic fashion and out of doors used a heavy walking‐stick. He obtained his degree by study at night‐school and his D.Sc. by research carried out in his office in the Library. Any ordinary person would have been deterred by the lack of normal facilities such as water, gas, electrical points (the room was heated by a coal fire!). He arrived punctually at the then official starting time of 10 a.m., lunched off sandwiches in his room, and went home at the official time of 4.50 p.m. In between he worked like a beaver. After he became Keeper of the Library his scientific work was of a theoretical nature as he had by then got his D.Sc. Anything he wanted to achieve he worked at against all odds and would never give up no matter what obstacles were put in his way, in his library work as in his scientific.
Bradford University Library was the first academic library in the United Kingdom to offer a self‐issue facility to its users. This article updates VINE 92 (September 1993) by…
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Bradford University Library was the first academic library in the United Kingdom to offer a self‐issue facility to its users. This article updates VINE 92 (September 1993) by tracing the development of the self‐issue facility at Bradford University Library during the last three years. It considers the possible implications for libraries and trends for future development.
Outlines the background to the development of three branch libraries opened by Bradford Metropolitan Council in 1995. Explains how each of the libraries serves three very…
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Outlines the background to the development of three branch libraries opened by Bradford Metropolitan Council in 1995. Explains how each of the libraries serves three very different communities and how the need for each of the libraries arose. Discusses the difficulties of starting each of the projects, some of which took several years to resolve. Includes some details of the main building problems encountered and how they were eventually overcome. Describes some elements of library design including disabled access, floor size and layout as well as security implications.
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Attempts to predict the changes which will occur at BradfordUniversity Library by the year 2000. Suggests that changes will be moreof an evolution than a revolution. Discusses the…
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Attempts to predict the changes which will occur at Bradford University Library by the year 2000. Suggests that changes will be more of an evolution than a revolution. Discusses the services provided, finances, staff skills, stock and space in terms of the present and possible future.
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THE Report of the Committee on Libraries, which was issued by the University Grants Committee in the summer of 1967, had for long been called the Parry Report after its Chairman…
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THE Report of the Committee on Libraries, which was issued by the University Grants Committee in the summer of 1967, had for long been called the Parry Report after its Chairman, Dr. Thomas Parry, formerly Librarian of the National Library of Wales and at the time the Principal of University College of Wales in Aberystwyth. When it was first set up in June 1963 the terms of reference were as follows:
Recently Bradford Libraries celebrated the 25th anniversary of its“new” Central Library building. Not, to be sure, aworld‐shattering event or one of great interest to the library…
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Recently Bradford Libraries celebrated the 25th anniversary of its “new” Central Library building. Not, to be sure, a world‐shattering event or one of great interest to the library profession (nor, indeed, to some of the public, whose library it is), but one feature concerning this celebration is worthy of note: the memories of past and present library staff. These memories were recorded, and from the new recruit who was asked to tell the City Librarian that the Great War had ended (and who got a penny for his effort), to the new recruit today struggling to master OPACs and the Citizen′s Charter, this record is a valuable documentary resource for both the historian who chronicles the changes in the philosophy and practices in the library service, and to the present‐day librarian.
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Describes the history of the Bradford Mechanics′ Institute Library,which was founded in 1832, in relation to prevailing educational andsocial circumstances. Discusses changes…
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Describes the history of the Bradford Mechanics′ Institute Library, which was founded in 1832, in relation to prevailing educational and social circumstances. Discusses changes resulting from the Education Act of 1870 when education passed into public hands. Considers the Library′s present survival and the circumstances hindering and harming that survival, which are mostly concerned with funding.
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A reassessment of the basic relationships between the university librarian and the library's users with particular reference to the social sciences. The interplay of the…
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A reassessment of the basic relationships between the university librarian and the library's users with particular reference to the social sciences. The interplay of the librarian's attitude and the reader's motivation is examined against the background of subject specialization, with special attention paid to the problems of the undergraduate dissertation (an experiment involving individual as well as group instruction is described). Increasing interdisciplinarity is seen as posing problems for relations between the social scientist and the librarian. Examples are drawn from experiences at the University of Bradford.
Eight libraries in the north‐east of England co‐operate to produce data which each can use in their own local government current awareness services. This scheme originated in the…
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Eight libraries in the north‐east of England co‐operate to produce data which each can use in their own local government current awareness services. This scheme originated in the wish by members to reduce duplication of effort and to enhance local services in the field of local government information. In attempting to reduce delay and increase coverage, but yet to retain local control and responsiveness, a unique system has been established which exhibits a high degree of flexibility and currency—one which could be used as a model for similar services. The planning and operation of this scheme are described, together with the comments of the participants concerning their use of the data. Some overall observations are made of issues and problems in the general area of co‐operative current awareness services and of how YADLOGIS (the co‐operative scheme discussed) copes with them. In conclusion, some thoughts are voiced on possible inter‐regional and national developments.