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Publication date: 1 March 1955

FREDERICK WOODS

I remember reading, some time ago, a short story by Lord Dunsany. It was about a rather improbable young man invited to hear the first performance of a setting of a modern poem…

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I remember reading, some time ago, a short story by Lord Dunsany. It was about a rather improbable young man invited to hear the first performance of a setting of a modern poem (incomprehensible, of course!) who mistook the tinkering of the piano tuner for the real performance. All very funny, no doubt, and only about twenty‐odd years out of date!

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Library Review, vol. 15 no. 3
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ISSN: 0024-2535

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Publication date: 1 April 1955

LORD DUNSANY

When the editor kindly consulted me about an answer to my article on modern so‐called verse, I urged him to allow it in common fairness. Now, with both points of view stated, I…

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When the editor kindly consulted me about an answer to my article on modern so‐called verse, I urged him to allow it in common fairness. Now, with both points of view stated, I had thought there was no need of more. But, on the editor suggesting a reply from me, I feel bound to follow his suggestion, since he was kind enough to follow mine.

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Library Review, vol. 15 no. 4
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Publication date: 1 May 1958

Of all the poets that I have known, Rudyard Kipling seemed to be the most full of human sympathies. If any great trouble had come my way, Kipling is the man to whom I should have…

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Of all the poets that I have known, Rudyard Kipling seemed to be the most full of human sympathies. If any great trouble had come my way, Kipling is the man to whom I should have taken it. And another thing about him was that laughter always seemed near to the brim of his blue eyes, as though welling up from some kindly joke. One joke I remember at his lovely house in the valley at Burwash was one made by his father, or by him and his father together; it was a cocoanut with a simple verse carved on it, to all appearances by a shipwrecked sailor, cast away for quite a long time, saying:—

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Library Review, vol. 16 no. 5
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Publication date: 1 February 1955

LORD DUNSANY

To such an extent has so‐called “modern verse” been ousting poetry for twenty years, that we may be in danger of losing poetry altogether. This would be a loss of about a fifth of…

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To such an extent has so‐called “modern verse” been ousting poetry for twenty years, that we may be in danger of losing poetry altogether. This would be a loss of about a fifth of the arts, and, since a nation without art could not be considered entirely civilized, it would bring us appreciably nearer barbarism. I think that to distinguish between poetry and “modern verse” is easy. First of all, poetry is written in metre, of which there are many kinds, the grandest being perhaps that to which Tennyson alluded when he wrote of Virgil as,

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Library Review, vol. 15 no. 2
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Publication date: 1 May 1958

PAUL SYKES

To anyone unfamiliar with the English local government system the current controversy over the financial provisions of the Local Government Bill will have given the impression…

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To anyone unfamiliar with the English local government system the current controversy over the financial provisions of the Local Government Bill will have given the impression that education is the sole function of local authorities. The effect of the Bill on education has figured largely in recent conferences, speeches and writings, and while opponents of the proposed block grant system prophesy a reduction in expenditure on education, those in favour of the new grant arrangements have confined their defence, in the main, to the same service. But whether or not one agrees with Lord Hailsham that “the gentlemen in Warwick and Welshpool, Wigan and Wiltshire, Westmorland and Woking” are as capable of administering the education service as the “gentlemen in Whitehall,” the future, so far as public libraries are concerned, is hardly in doubt. Already in a vulnerable position owing to their reliance on rate revenue,—coupled with a ready misunderstanding, especially at estimate time, of their value and true functions,—public libraries will be in danger of being driven even further below the poverty line when the block grant system begins to operate.

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Library Review, vol. 16 no. 5
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Publication date: 1 March 1920

“Hitherto,” remarked the Provost, Sir Gregory Foster, at the University College School of Librarianship Social on March 3rd, “The librarian has been in an unfortunate position. He…

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“Hitherto,” remarked the Provost, Sir Gregory Foster, at the University College School of Librarianship Social on March 3rd, “The librarian has been in an unfortunate position. He was thought to know so much that it was unnecessary to teach him anything, and when he had been persuaded to become a librarian, it was thought to be unnecessary to pay him anything.” Allowing for a certain telling and colouring irony, this does really represent the position of some librarians in the past; and the hope that Sir Gregory Foster then expressed, which was echoed by Sir John MacAlister, that the new School would play its part in altering the position, is one that all librarians, however ruefully, must share. Ruefully, because the School was not established twenty or more years ago, so that they might have enjoyed its advantages, and have been prepared, in an orthodox academic sense, for the great days which are undoubtedly ahead for libraries and librarians.

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New Library World, vol. 22 no. 9
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ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 April 1955

In our last number we presented an article by Mr. J. C. Harrison of the Manchester School of Librarianship on “The Library Schools and a Historical Dilemma” in which professional…

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In our last number we presented an article by Mr. J. C. Harrison of the Manchester School of Librarianship on “The Library Schools and a Historical Dilemma” in which professional education and examination policy were reviewed. The following comments are to hand on the article.

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Library Review, vol. 15 no. 4
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Publication date: 1 January 1931

G.H. GRUBB

IN all this rush for bargains in first editions, and the feverish anxiety on the part of many collectors, pseudo and genuine, there is a natural desire to look ahead, and to…

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IN all this rush for bargains in first editions, and the feverish anxiety on the part of many collectors, pseudo and genuine, there is a natural desire to look ahead, and to discover the big writers of to‐morrow, because it is their books of to‐day that will be the rare and valuable items of to‐morrow. But there's the conundrum It is easy enough, if we are rich enough, to buy, shall we say, Arnold Bennett's Old Wives Tale for £50 or more, because we are constantly learning how few copies there are about, and because it is really a good first edition to have. The same may be said of the rare things of Shaw, Barrie, Wells, Galsworthy and others. To select an unknown writer, and to say to oneself: his first book is going to be a notable and closely sought for book to‐morrow, is, indeed, a difficult task which few of us can encompass. Yet it is done. There are those happy ones who said it about Shaw in his early days, of Tomlinson in his, and they now possess real worth in two ways. I do not ever want to forget the literary value of these, and other writers: there is, indeed, value there; but there is the other way—the economic value. Some wiseacres, in their shrewd vision and intelligent and intellectual anticipation, hug themselves in bibliographic glee in that these two ways are theirs. Fads and fashions, conventions and popularisms, come up and pass these good people by. They blazed their own trail, and, in their quiet and contented way, they proceeded to their own contented end, and now they may justifiably revel in their own fore‐sightedness. Blessed are they among the growing army of book collectors.

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Library Review, vol. 3 no. 1
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Publication date: 1 September 1939

THESE are grave days, and perhaps especially grave for those who are workers in books, in art and in the things of the mind and spirit. They are days which may make, or may mar…

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THESE are grave days, and perhaps especially grave for those who are workers in books, in art and in the things of the mind and spirit. They are days which may make, or may mar, much that such people as the readers of THE LIBRARY WORLD have striven for through a century or more. In war the material things, money, food, clothes, cease to be ordinary problems; they become urgent; and all the graces of life, even education itself, are endangered. We have yet to experience the full impact, let alone the reactions, of the drastic war taxation recently imposed. Necessary it is, no doubt, but that will not lessen its effects.

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New Library World, vol. 42 no. 3
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ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 January 1989

Stuart Hannabuss

The management of children′s literature is a search for value andsuitability. Effective policies in library and educational work arebased firmly on knowledge of materials, and on…

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The management of children′s literature is a search for value and suitability. Effective policies in library and educational work are based firmly on knowledge of materials, and on the bibliographical and critical frame within which the materials appear and might best be selected. Boundaries, like those between quality and popular books, and between children′s and adult materials, present important challenges for selection, and implicit in this process are professional acumen and judgement. Yet also there are attitudes and systems of values, which can powerfully influence selection on grounds of morality and good taste. To guard against undue subjectivity, the knowledge frame should acknowledge the relevance of social and experiential context for all reading materials, how readers think as well as how they read, and what explicit and implicit agendas the authors have. The good professional takes all these factors on board.

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Library Management, vol. 10 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-5124

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