Research into the role and status of women in British librarianship was undertaken between 1980 and 1984. The hypothesis examined was that women's under‐representation in senior…
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Research into the role and status of women in British librarianship was undertaken between 1980 and 1984. The hypothesis examined was that women's under‐representation in senior librarianship posts is the result of their lack of ambition and their orientation to domestic and gender roles. No evidence was found to support this view for women librarians overall.
Rita Bolton, Gillian A. Burrington and Wilfred Ashworth
Two chunks of high protein leading article fodder are processed by Wilfred Ashworth in his report in this issue of LA Council meeting of 27 September — the negotiations then…
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Two chunks of high protein leading article fodder are processed by Wilfred Ashworth in his report in this issue of LA Council meeting of 27 September — the negotiations then proceeding with Butterworth's (part of Reed International) on the sale to them of LAPL journals and discussion on the Saunders' Tract — Towards a Unified Professional Organization… Enough of these left, perhaps, for me to chew them over a bit more.
Gillian A Burrington, Margaret Kendall and Christine Talbot
The history and significance of equal opportunities are outlinedand the development of initiatives within the library profession inGreat Britain is examined. Two relevant research…
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The history and significance of equal opportunities are outlined and the development of initiatives within the library profession in Great Britain is examined. Two relevant research projects in Manchester Polytechnic′s Department of Library and Information Studies are discussed and outlined by their authors.
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The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains…
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The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains features to help the reader to retrieve relevant literature from MCB University Press' considerable output. Each entry within has been indexed according to author(s) and the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus. The latter thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid retrieval. Each article or book is assigned its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. This Volume indexes 29 journals indicating the depth, coverage and expansion of MCB's portfolio.
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Not many weeks back, according to newspaper reports, three members of the library staff of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London were dismissed. All had…
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Not many weeks back, according to newspaper reports, three members of the library staff of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London were dismissed. All had refused to carry out issue desk duty. All, according to the newspaper account, were members of ASTMS. None, according to the Library Association yearbook, was a member of the appropriate professional organisation for librarians in Great Britain.
Tom Schultheiss and Linda Mark
The following classified, annotated list of titles is intended to provide reference librarians with a current checklist of new reference books, and is designed to supplement the…
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The following classified, annotated list of titles is intended to provide reference librarians with a current checklist of new reference books, and is designed to supplement the RSR review column, “Recent Reference Books,” by Frances Neel Cheney. “Reference Books in Print” includes all additional books received prior to the inclusion deadline established for this issue. Appearance in this column does not preclude a later review in RSR. Publishers are urged to send a copy of all new reference books directly to RSR as soon as published, for immediate listing in “Reference Books in Print.” Reference books with imprints older than two years will not be included (with the exception of current reprints or older books newly acquired for distribution by another publisher). The column shall also occasionally include library science or other library related publications of other than a reference character.
The Seminar on Library Interior Layout and Design organised by IFLA's Section on Library Buildings and Equipment, and attended by people from over twenty‐two countries, was held…
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The Seminar on Library Interior Layout and Design organised by IFLA's Section on Library Buildings and Equipment, and attended by people from over twenty‐two countries, was held at Frederiksdal, Denmark, in June 1980. This present article neither reports on the Seminar's proceedings, as it is hoped to publish the papers in due course, nor describes fully the Danish public libraries seen, but rather uses the Seminar's theme and the library visits as a point of departure for considering some aspects of the interior layout—the landscape—of public libraries. Brief details of the new Danish public libraries visited are given in a table at the end of the article.
Communications regarding this column should be addressed to Mrs. Cheney, Peabody Library School, Nashville, Tenn. 37203. Mrs. Cheney does not sell the books listed here. They are…
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Communications regarding this column should be addressed to Mrs. Cheney, Peabody Library School, Nashville, Tenn. 37203. Mrs. Cheney does not sell the books listed here. They are available through normal trade sources. Mrs. Cheney, being a member of the editorial board of Pierian Press, will not review Pierian Press reference books in this column. Descriptions of Pierian Press reference books will be included elsewhere in this publication.
For such is the recommended style for any male editor of NLW writing about women in librarianship. So far every editor of NLW, since James Duff Brown the onlie begetter of Library…
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For such is the recommended style for any male editor of NLW writing about women in librarianship. So far every editor of NLW, since James Duff Brown the onlie begetter of Library World in 1898, has been a man. I'm sure, however, that She in Kings Ripton will find it tolerable to appoint a woman as next NLW editor.