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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the attitudes of restaurant managers toward halal certification.

In total, 33 interview sessions were conducted among restaurant managers in halal certified, halal claimant and non‐halal restaurants and the data were coordinated into common themes.

Restaurant managers feel that halal certification is very prevalent in the hospitality industry, as it promotes the importance of restaurant managers having knowledge of Muslims' dietary restrictions, sensitivity and religious practices; halal certification signifies that it has some attributes that make it unique and at the same time conforming to the Islamic dietary rules.

This study is very significant as this is the first paper to examine attitudes of restaurant managers in relation to halal certification in Malaysia. It is gathered that very few researches were performed in the hospitality industry pertaining to halal certification, although the demand for halal foods is growing.

Reports on the role of UK emigrants to the USA in the creation and early development of its public accountancy profession. Explains findings in the context of US public accountancy firms founded by UK immigrants and focuses on the recruitment of qualified and unqualified public accountants from the UK. The study is based on searches of relevant archives in the UK and USA. The evidence reveals UK immigrants played a substantial part in the formation and early development of both public accountancy firms and institutions in the USA. However, the recruitment of immigrants by US firms appears to have been a temporary phenomenon pending the supply of US‐born accountants with suitable training and experience. The firms examined include local and national firms. Subject to data retrieval limitations, a major conclusion of the study is that unqualified immigrants played significant roles in the early histories of firms and institutions of US public accountancy.

Public access to legal materials is extremely important because of the number of laws, regulations, and court cases governing our society. In order to function effectively on a day‐to‐day basis and carry out his or her responsibilities toward the legal system, an individual needs an understanding of the law and the legal process. In this article we explore the steps that public librarians must take to establish and utilize a basic legal collection for their communities and offer some insight into the suggested approaches for dealing with legal reference inquiries.

The educational reformer of a hundred years ago could not turn readily to the educational journal which hardly existed in a serious form until well into the twentieth century. However, through the first half of the nine‐teenth century there were a number of important publications. From the 1860s onwards familiar names begin to appear as publishers turned to the ready market provided by the expansion of educational opportunity. From just before the Education Act of 1870 we find that some of the most consistent publishers of books on education are houses that have retained their interest to the present day. Macmillan, Murray, Chapman, Kegan Paul, Cambridge University Press and Longman are quite familiar imprints on many of the most significant works published between 1870 and the turn of the century. Changes in the curriculum and reform within the system itself also added an impetus to the demand for printed sources of information and debate.

In 1899 the medical practitioners of Dublin were confronted with an outbreak of a peculiar and obscure illness, characterised by symptoms which were very unusual. For want of a better explanation, the disorder, which seemed to be epidemic, was explained by the simple expedient of finding a name for it. It was labelled as “beri‐beri,” a tropical disease with very much the same clinical and pathological features as those observed at Dublin. Papers were read before certain societies, and then as the cases gradually diminished in number, the subject lost interest and was dropped.

What is it about academia anyway? We profess to hate it, spend endless amounts of time complaining about it, and yet we in academia will do practically anything to stay. The pay may be low, job security elusive, and in the end, it's not the glamorous work we envisioned it would be. Yet, it still holds fascination and interest for us. This is an article about American academic fiction. By academic fiction, I mean novels whosemain characters are professors, college students, and those individuals associated with academia. These works reveal many truths about the higher education experience not readily available elsewhere. We learn about ourselves and the university community in which we work.

On the twenty‐sixth of August, at the early age of fifty‐nine, WILLIAM HENRY CORFIELD passed away.