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IT is nearly three and a half centuries since John Donne, preaching in St. Paul's Cathedral, of which he had recently become Dean, said: ‘Some men, by the benefit of this light of Reason, have found out things profitable and use‐ful to the whole world; as in particular Printing, by which the learning of the whole world is communicable to one another, and our minds and inventions, our wits and compositions, may trade and have commerce together, and we may participate of one another's understandings, as well as of our Clothes, Wines, Oyles and other Merchandize.’

Let me begin by reassuring you that this paper is not a survey of the literature of the film. The library of the British Film Institute contains just over 10,000 books and pamphlets relating to the film, and even a hasty survey of a body of literature of that size and complexity would occupy us all night. Most of this literature, moreover, falls outside the scope of the bibliography I am compiling on which this paper is based: a bibliography of film librarianship. My subject this evening, therefore, is limited to the literature that deals in some measure with the art, the science, or, if you prefer, the discipline of film librarianship; the collection, organization, and treatment of films in libraries. That there is such a discipline is, I think, warranted by the existence of this group, and if there are still some unbelievers in that great grey sea of librarianship beyond Aslib, I trust the Cataloguing Code that has been so methodically (I almost said painfully) formulated at the fortnightly sessions of your Cataloguing Committee will be fully recognized as the birth certificate of a new and vital branch of the ‘penurious science’.

During the years 1958 to 1960 a firm of American Market Research Consultants investigated the current state of affairs of tourism and its probable future development in 17 countries of the Pacific and the Far East. This task was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce together with the Pacific Area Travel Association. A comprehensive report was published in 1961 under the title “The Future of Tourism in the Pacific and Far East”.

ANYBODY whoses daily work involves the planning and spending of money must at all times be concerned by efforts to ensure that value is being obtained for the money spent. Those of us who, as librarians, are spending the money of fellow tax‐payers, are naturally doubly concerned about this problem. In addition, the very phrase “value for money” to a Yorkshireman is a continual challenge, and a point on which he instinctively feels, rightly or wrongly, that he has some secret inborn knowledge.

SOCIAL scientists have not yet been able to formulate any general laws about behaviour in industry that are capable of broad application. In recent years, however, they have made many useful case studies of which the one just published by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research is typical. It is an approach to the problem which can do much to increase the understanding of the way in which people react to common industrial situations.

THE Newcastle school, like most others, was established after the second world war to provide full‐time education in librarianship as an alternative to the part‐time system which until 1946 was the only one available to the majority of librarians. At first most of the students were returning servicemen whose library careers had been interrupted by the war and they were followed by students direct from libraries, universities and schools. From a handful of students and one full‐time member of staff in the first year the school has grown steadily until there were 53 students and five staff during the session 1962–3 which was the last course held for the Registration Examination.

A review of the design philosophy, primary design features and management of airline and executive customer variants, followed by a description of furnishing materials, fixed trim assembly, passengers' personal item stowages and facilities, lighting, cabin staff appointments and communication, catering installations, toilets, domestic water system and emergency provisions.

THE country is condemned to a new economic dispensation as full of difficulties as a hedgehog is of spines, and in general just as prickly. Time's crucible will resolve some of them but there are others for which such protracted recuperation is too slow.

Represents some of the preliminary results of a research project being undertaken at the University of Salford (UK), into the management of export marketing in the textile machinery, agricultural machinery, and mechanical handling equipment industries. Bases analysis on information obtained in interviews with top executives in the 40 firms so far visited, of varying size and covering all the major sections of the three industries. States the standard of export marketing is not solely a function of the size and resources of individual firms – it also depends on the extent to which the policy makers in a firm are prepare to gear its operations to overseas markets. Concludes in the last resort it is the firms that must do the exporting, and it is directors” and managers” quality that determines their response to improvements in services and incentives.

CHANGE has always characterised industrial societies. To speak of it as a mid‐twentieth century phenomenon, a violation of the established order, is unrealistic. Manufacturing operations have always been reviewed, sporadically or systematically, in industry to find new methods in order to secure greater output or lower costs. Usually the worker continued at his job with altered duties and different demands upon him, adjusting fairly easily to changed conditions in a routine way.