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The purpose of this paper is to highlight the business growth opportunities available from franchising in the UK and abroad.

The paper presents the value of franchising for strategic business development.

The paper finds that franchising is becoming one of the most popular methods for growing a business, particularly where international growth is an objective. It should be seriously considered by any business which operates through a network of outlets.

Just about any business that operates through a branch network could benefit from considering franchising as a development option. In simple terms, the advantages include quicker growth through more highly motivated operators, using someone else's money and effort, to open and run the outlets.

The paper highlights franchising as a development option for businesses that operate through a branch network.

This article features a number of reviews from A Perfect Vacuum by Stanlslaw Lem. These reviews, of non‐existent books, concern various aspects of reading, knowledge‐seeking and related epistemological issues. Through this bizarre literary device, Lem is able to raise a number of extreme, absurd and otherwise mind‐boggling ideas, somewhat in the surrealist style of Jorge Luís Borges. The reader is challenged to look afresh at traditional presuppositions and conventional wisdom. Such inspirational writing is a rare tonic.

Librarians are good at acquiring, preserving and organizing collections, but what is the point unless these collections are used? Argues that librarians should take responsibility for seeing that their collections are used, if necessary, and perhaps even ideally, by themselves.

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.