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Publication date: 1 August 1973

P HAVARD‐WILLIAMS, RJ PRYTHERCH, ERIC STEVENS, TED GOODLIFFE, DORIS PALMER, MONICA HUMPHRIES and RL DAVIS

THE MIXED reaction to the proposal for a diploma of higher education appears to be based not on the qualities or defects of the curriculum for the diploma—for no‐one yet really…

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THE MIXED reaction to the proposal for a diploma of higher education appears to be based not on the qualities or defects of the curriculum for the diploma—for no‐one yet really knows what it is going to be—but on attitudes which relate not to educational problems, but to social or political assumptions. The great British public has never wanted to spend more than it must on education. Expenditure on universities was never questioned when it was a fraction of the budget: since it has been a significant figure, the government of the day, whatever its complexion, has sought to economise. The polytechnics were supposed to be cheaper than universities; four term years cheaper than three term years. Now it is two‐year diplomas that are cheaper than three or four year degrees. No‐one with experience of the various changes in educational policy made by successive governments can, it seems to me, be other than cynical about the educational motives of politicians in making changes in the educational system. The case for the introduction of a two‐year course for a diploma in higher education is that many students would prefer to undertake a shorter course, with the possibility of topping it up later to degree standard if they wish to do so. This is presumably one example of the current fashionable phrase ‘continuous education’. Bodies such as the AUT and some members of professional associations fear that the introduction of the diploma will lead to a reduction in standards in the education students receive. The AUT also thinks it will affect the salaries of teaching staff.

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New Library World, vol. 74 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 September 1975

THE ‘need to build information management firmly into the management structure of British companies—not to mention that of central and local government’ forms the keynote of…

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THE ‘need to build information management firmly into the management structure of British companies—not to mention that of central and local government’ forms the keynote of Leslie Wilson's introduction of Aslib's 51st annual report, which revealed a useful increase in gross income to £312,000, and membership standing at 2225, of which 30% are industrial companies.

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New Library World, vol. 76 no. 9
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Publication date: 1 April 1979

Wilfred Ashworth, Graham Barnett, Julian Hodgson, WA Munford, Jennifer Brice and David Radmore

ADVERSE WEATHER conditions greatly reduced the number of members attending the February Council especially those resident in parts east. Everyone who had made it seemed to take a…

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ADVERSE WEATHER conditions greatly reduced the number of members attending the February Council especially those resident in parts east. Everyone who had made it seemed to take a while to warm to their task and passed the report of the Executive Co‐ordinating Committee like lambs. With mild interest they heard that the Secretary had recommended to the General Purposes Committee that the old Council Chamber should not after all, be divided into offices but instead be made into a joint members' and staff common room. ‘More modest extensions to the toilet accommodation’ (the imagination boggles!) are part of this reduced package which saves half the projected £40,000. For council meetings a platform with furniture suitable to the dignity of the association will be provided.

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New Library World, vol. 80 no. 4
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Publication date: 1 August 1979

Blake Tyson, Roman Iwaschkin, Gillian Mead, David Reid, Peter Gillman, Wilfred Ashworth, Clive Bingley, Edwin Fleming, Sarah Lawson and Kate Hills

AS A RESULT of present economic problems in Britain and attendant cuts in spending, there is a need to achieve maximum cost‐effectiveness in all sectors of public spending…

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AS A RESULT of present economic problems in Britain and attendant cuts in spending, there is a need to achieve maximum cost‐effectiveness in all sectors of public spending including libraries. This article examines a simple method by which economies could be made in buying multiple copies of books. It is assumed that unless librarians have freedom to buy a single copy of any book they choose, they will not achieve the breadth and depth required of first‐class libraries, be they in the public sector or in academic institutions. Perhaps second copies need cause little concern, but a pilot survey of a polytechnic library revealed cases where as many as four, six or even eight copies of the same edition had been bought on one occasion before the effectiveness of a lesser purchase could have been evaluated.

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New Library World, vol. 80 no. 8
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Publication date: 1 March 1978

Clive Bingley and Helen Moss

WADING THROUGH this month's pile of press‐releases, and finding it, yet again, ‘dry’ as far as Library Association news is concerned—when did I last see one from them?—I reflect…

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WADING THROUGH this month's pile of press‐releases, and finding it, yet again, ‘dry’ as far as Library Association news is concerned—when did I last see one from them?—I reflect moodily on the great PR fiasco of last year. I think I shall deliver a little homily on the subject.

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New Library World, vol. 79 no. 3
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ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 May 1997

Bob Duckett

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Reference Reviews, vol. 11 no. 5
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ISSN: 0950-4125

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Publication date: 1 October 1978

Clive Bingley, Sarah Lawson and Edwin Fleming

WENT TO Brittany in July for a week's holiday with my dear wife, and found it agreeaby empty of both tourists and the flood of crude oil which had enveloped the coast a few months…

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WENT TO Brittany in July for a week's holiday with my dear wife, and found it agreeaby empty of both tourists and the flood of crude oil which had enveloped the coast a few months ago when the tanker Amoco Cadiz broke up. Plenty of rain, though, so we spent the week perambulating between restaurants, and returned lighter of pocket and heavier of tum, to find a charming letter from a librarian in Hong Kong, who said he had met my sister there recently and she had expressed great admiration for me. I replied that in that case it couldn't have been my sister and would he please send a photo of the lady.

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New Library World, vol. 79 no. 10
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Publication date: 1 May 1978

Clive Bingley, Helen Moss and Allan Bunch

OF THE desultory correspondence in the Times provoked by the announcement in March of the go‐ahead for the new British Library building next to St. Pancras railway station—a…

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OF THE desultory correspondence in the Times provoked by the announcement in March of the go‐ahead for the new British Library building next to St. Pancras railway station—a gentle lap‐dog to lie down along‐side a portly crinolined Victorian lady—the most interesting to my mind was a letter pointing out that because of the impending electrification of an ancillary line, that particular railway station would in due course be surplus to British Rail's requirements. Why not, asked the correspondent, build a bridge from the new library across Midland Road to the old station, and convert the train shed into a magnificent reading‐room?

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New Library World, vol. 79 no. 5
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Publication date: 1 April 1979

Clive Bingley, Edwin Fleming and Sarah Lawson

I DON'T KNOW whether you are yet straight in your minds about the present location of the various parts of my erstwhile, present and embryonic business empires, but it will…

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I DON'T KNOW whether you are yet straight in your minds about the present location of the various parts of my erstwhile, present and embryonic business empires, but it will certainly clear my mind of confusion if I try to set it down here once and for all—and you are welcome to photocopy it (without comeback) for the edification of your colleagues!

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New Library World, vol. 80 no. 4
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Publication date: 1 March 1976

Clive Bingley, John Buchanan and Elaine Kempson

IT IS PERHAPS with wry understatement that the recent public declaration by the Library Association Council on the subject of library expenditure includes the remark that ‘The…

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IT IS PERHAPS with wry understatement that the recent public declaration by the Library Association Council on the subject of library expenditure includes the remark that ‘The Library Association does not claim that libraries should be exempt from the economies which must now be borne by all’, for it has been manifestly apparent, since some dim realisation of national economic crisis first began to seep into the quasi‐cerebral thought processes of those who conduct government and local government, that the first neck upon which the sharpness of the axe would be tested has been library services everywhere.

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New Library World, vol. 77 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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