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THE BOUNDARIES have been set now and re‐organisation has come upon the public library world at its set date, approaching, occurring and passing on, like a lunar eclipse.

To some who cast their bread upon the waters, it comes back as buttered toast! Thus might be described an enjoyable day for my wife and myself in March as guests in Wiltshire of Director of Library & Museum Services, Frederick Hallworth.

On top of our staffing difficulties we've had a two‐month embargo on book orders dictated by the City Treasurer, we've closed earlier and opened later and the electricity supply has been static. Fuses have blown, the lift hasn't worked, toilets have become unusable and we've had to close the library at half an hour's notice.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the Stages of Change (SOC) model can be applied to working with offenders with learning disabilities (LD), and furthermore, to determine if it might be efficacious for this approach to be incorporated into a wider service model for this population.

This paper reports on the results of a consultation to a specialist forensic LD service in the South West of England. A two-pronged approach was taken to consult to the service in relation to the research questions. First, a comprehensive literature review was undertaken, and second, other forensic LD teams and experts in the field were consulted.

There is a dearth of research that has examined the application of the SOC model to working with offenders with LD, and as such, firm conclusions cannot be drawn as to its efficacy in this population. The evidence base for the SOC model in itself is lacking, and has been widely critiqued. However, there are currently no other evidence-based models for understanding motivation to change in offenders with LD.

There is a clear clinical need for more robust theory and research around motivation to change, which can then be applied to clinical work with offenders with LD.

There has been a historical narrative in offender rehabilitation that “nothing works” (Burrowes and Needs, 2009). As such, it is more important than ever for the evidence base to enhance the understanding of motivation to change in offending populations.

STELLRAM's first introduction in a new series of tooling ranges is the H‐Elix milling programme specifically developed for the machining of exotic, heat‐resistant materials such as those used in aerospace. Now available ex‐stock from Stellram Ltd of Melksham, Wiltshire, H‐Elix cutters include end and face mills which feature through‐tool coolant supply and cover diameters from 16 to 100 mm. Innovative design coupled with high‐performance inserts result in a cutter which exerts lower forces on both machine tool and component. High positive geometry is ideal for machining difficult materials and maximum advantage is taken in the new range for high efficiency cutting of Titanium, Inconel, Marval, Stellite and other exotics.

In order to achieve substantial growth of VFP's hydraulics systems business at home and overseas, Richard Jasinski (38) has been appointed sales & marketing director and assistant managing director of VFP Fluid Power Ltd of Swindon, Wiltshire, a subsidiary of Aerospace Engineering plc.

Currently in Great Britain 12.9% of the workforce are unemployed — over three million people. Within this overall total there are considerable variations in the levels of employment in different parts of the country. Even within individual local authorities there will be sizeable differences in the actual size of unemployment from one town to another.

A Crown Court hearing of a charge of applying a false A description under S.2, Trade Descriptions Act, 1968, is given in some detail under Legal Proceedings in this issue of BFJ. It concerns using the word “ham”, ie., the natural leg of a single pig, to various pieces from several pigs, deboned, defatted, “tumbled, massaged and cooked” in a mould shaped to a leg of ham, from which the average purchaser would find it impossible to distinguish. As the defence rightly claimed, this process has been used for at least a couple of decades, and the product forms a sizeable section of the bacon trade. Evidence by prosecution witnesses, experienced shop managers, believed the product to be the genuine “ham”. There is nothing detrimental about the meat, save that it tends to contain an excess of added water, but this applies to many meat products today; or that the manufacturers are setting out to cheat the consumer. What offends is the description given to the product. Manufacture was described in detail—a county trading standards officer inspected the process at the defendant company's Wiltshire factory, witness to the extent of their co‐operation—and was questioned at great length by defending counsel. Specimens of the product were exhibited and the jury were treated to a tasting test—presumably designed to refute prosecution's claim that the meat was of “poor value”. The trial judge said the jury had no doubt been enlightened as to the methods of manufacturing ham. The marketing of the product was also a subject of examination.

The development of public, commercial and technical libraries, leading to the establishment of local schemes of library co‐operation is outlined. Current developments, activities and changes where applicable are discussed in some detail firstly in public‐library‐based schemes and secondly in college‐based schemes. The inauguration of SCOCLIS, early activities, period of inaction and more recent revival are described.

The purpose of this paper is to extend the work of Carnegie and Walker and report the results of Part 2 of their study on household accounting in Australia during the period from the 1820s to the 1960s.

The study adopts a microhistorical approach involving a detailed examination of actual accounting practices in the Australian home based on 18 sets of surviving household records identified as exemplars and supplemented by other sources which permit their contextualisation and interpretation.

The findings point to considerable variety in the accounting practices pursued by individuals and families. Household accounting in Australia was undertaken by both women and men of the middle and landed classes whose surviving household accounts were generally found to comprise one element of diverse and comprehensive personal record keeping systems. The findings indicate points of convergence and divergence in relation to the contemporary prescriptive literature and practice.

The paper reflects on the implications of the findings for the notion of the household as a unit of consumption as opposed to production, gender differences in accounting practice and financial responsibility, the relationship between changes in the life course and the commencement and cessation of household accounting, and the relationship between domestic accounting practice and social class.