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Publication date: 1 October 1991

Peter Prowse and Mike Clapham

This paper will discuss the issues of internal flexibility in an organisation and will analyse how the Institute of Manpower studies model of the flexible firm has been utilised…

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This paper will discuss the issues of internal flexibility in an organisation and will analyse how the Institute of Manpower studies model of the flexible firm has been utilised in the coal mining industry in the UK.

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Management Research News, vol. 14 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0140-9174

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Publication date: 1 July 1989

David Gerard, Sue Lacey Bryant, Mike Cornford and Sandra Vogel

I went to the Booksellers' Conference Exhibition (persona ELM Publications, Educational Books and Resources) hoping to alert booksellers to our new Factpacks series [Jackdaw…

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I went to the Booksellers' Conference Exhibition (persona ELM Publications, Educational Books and Resources) hoping to alert booksellers to our new Factpacks series [Jackdaw look‐alikes, but with interesting differences].

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New Library World, vol. 90 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 August 1986

WILFRED ASHWORTH, MIKE CORNFORD, MIKE PEARCE and ANDREW WRIGHTING

Ex Libris, the report of the Adam Smith Institute advocating membership fees and borrowing charges in public libraries, attracted no great attention apart from a few knockabout…

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Ex Libris, the report of the Adam Smith Institute advocating membership fees and borrowing charges in public libraries, attracted no great attention apart from a few knockabout setpieces in the press and on the radio. NLW's prize for headline of the month goes to the Daily Telegraph of 23 June: two half columns on the report were headed by Fees Demanded to Deter Library Louts. Worth reporting here if only to express editorial belief that there can't be more than two people who read both NLW and the Daily Telegraph. There was also a little to‐do on Radio 4's ‘Stop the Week’ on 28 June with Robert Robinson almost alone defending public libraries, provoking a reference from one of the chatting coterie that something was alright for the ‘Raynes Park literati’. Robinson went to Raynes Park Country Grammar School which in its day was quite a school with W H Auden writing the words of the school song. (Readers in Uttoxeter and Gosport may like to know that the school is hard by the London and South Western Railway and is probably in the new‐fangled London Borough of Merton.) The Times on the same day had a respectable second leader which concluded that the report “should make us think more about how libraries should be managed, what they should stock and who should manage them”.

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New Library World, vol. 87 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 May 1987

MIKE CORNFORD

However much it might sound like an old chestnut, this is not an apocryphal story. During my first month of employment in a library when my advisory work had consisted entirely of…

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However much it might sound like an old chestnut, this is not an apocryphal story. During my first month of employment in a library when my advisory work had consisted entirely of fielding questions about the availability of lavatories, public telephones and photocopiers I was approached by a man who said, “You used to have a book, I can't remember what it's called”, and vaguely waving towards the windows added, “it had a green cover and used to be over there”. For a timid waif, as yet unaware that there was such a grandiose thing as enquiry technique, this was a devastating challenge so I looked anxiously around for professional assistance. But as usual, my senior colleagues were either at a meeting, hiding from the public in the office or else out in the foyer harassing a defenceless pensioner for spilling tea over a crochet book. Manfully I single‐handedly set about the task. By careful questioning, some inspired guess‐work and a bit of luck (I still hadn't quite got the hang of the catalogue) I advanced from subject to title and triumphantly dug the required item out of the reserve store. Naturally it had a red cover.

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New Library World, vol. 88 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 July 1987

MIKE CORNFORD

There are many different ways for the general public to express their views about the range and nature of our services. Throwing a supermarket trolley through the window, storming…

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There are many different ways for the general public to express their views about the range and nature of our services. Throwing a supermarket trolley through the window, storming out threatening never to darken our shelves again and dumping a bag of overdue books in the fishing lake are three recent pointers to me that maybe I'm not completely in touch with the needs of the local community. These may well be entirely appropriate gestures but I much prefer more subtle messages, especially when it comes to opinions on my book selection.

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New Library World, vol. 88 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 December 1986

MIKE CORNFORD

One of the hidden casualties of the introduction of book security systems is the demise of those wonderful collections of X Certificate material which used to masquerade under…

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One of the hidden casualties of the introduction of book security systems is the demise of those wonderful collections of X Certificate material which used to masquerade under euphemisms like Restricted Access or Please ask at the desk. These reluctantly tolerated assemblages were traditionally kept well out of reach of public fondling and frequently well hidden from prurient gaze. My own Borough's endearing version of this category was called Controlled Issue, a term which gave rise to some interesting neologisms such as Can I have a Controlled Issue please? The ambiguity of this label has long been a source of delight, opening up as it does a vision of the public library actively promoting family planning by keeping from its users those books likely to give rise to lascivious thoughts which we all know lead to carnal deeds and greater staffing demands on the Children's Services.

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New Library World, vol. 87 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 28 April 2005

Robert Garot

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Ethnographies of Law and Social Control
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ISBN: 978-0-76231-128-6

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Publication date: 1 January 1991

Sarah Cowell, Mike Cornford, Edwin Fleming, Allan Bunch and Tony Joseph

Through this column I will be exploring the field of environmental information and its provision in this country. I will do this by tackling the subject from the user's point of…

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Through this column I will be exploring the field of environmental information and its provision in this country. I will do this by tackling the subject from the user's point of view: each month I will pick a different user (or potential user) group, and discuss resources, services and organisations which can be of use to this group. Just to avoid any charge of repetitiveness, I will occasionally diverge from this pattern to discuss other issues.

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New Library World, vol. 92 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 April 1989

Yvonne Warburton, Mike Cornford and Sandra Vogel

Last month there was an unexpected complete absence of anything I felt like shouting about. This month there's more than enough.

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Last month there was an unexpected complete absence of anything I felt like shouting about. This month there's more than enough.

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New Library World, vol. 90 no. 4
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ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 July 2001

Nick Green

Recalls times spent in Gordon Pask’s company and the discussions with the author on a wide range of topics, but focusing especially on foundational issues in science and…

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Recalls times spent in Gordon Pask’s company and the discussions with the author on a wide range of topics, but focusing especially on foundational issues in science and cybernetics and developments in Pask’s own conversation theory and interaction of actors theory.

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Kybernetes, vol. 30 no. 5/6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0368-492X

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