In our Winter, 1954, number we presented views on professional education by Messrs. W. B. Paton, W. R. Aitken, J. Brindle, N. E. Dain, and other writers. Aspects of the subject…
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In our Winter, 1954, number we presented views on professional education by Messrs. W. B. Paton, W. R. Aitken, J. Brindle, N. E. Dain, and other writers. Aspects of the subject, and with particular reference to the association of professional library education with the universities, are discussed in this number by Messrs. W. Caldwell and P. H. Sewell, both of whom are in charge of library schools; and by Dr. E. A. Savage, who has been actively connected with library educational training for many years. Readers who have views to express on the subject are invited to send them for publication.
The purpose of this paper is to indicates the history and nature of Library Review over 80 years.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to indicates the history and nature of Library Review over 80 years.
Design/methodology/approach
A chronological narrative highlights the main themes and personalities involved in the history of the journal.
Findings
Library Review has changed in nature and outlook since its foundation although many of its professional fundamentals remain unchanged.
Practical implications
Discusses the history of one of the longest running library journals and as such should be of practical interest to library historians and those interested in journal publishing.
Originality/value
Celebrates the 80th anniversary of Library Review, written by a former editor, the second‐longest‐serving incumbent at the journal.
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A recent survey on book purchases was published by Sales Research Service Limited and reveals some very interesting statistics.
PERIODICAL LITERATURE is notoriously afflicted by a high infant mortality rate. Literary magazines in particular seem to exhibit all the survival instincts of a claustrophobic…
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PERIODICAL LITERATURE is notoriously afflicted by a high infant mortality rate. Literary magazines in particular seem to exhibit all the survival instincts of a claustrophobic lemming. It is therefore a special pleasure to see an avowedly ‘bookish’ magazine—and a Scottish one at that—celebrate its fiftieth birthday. Fifty years of a Scottish literary periodical! It is rather like running up a cricket score at football. Even more extraordinary is the fact that these fifty years have been achieved under only two editors. R. D. Macleod, the founding editor, ran the magazine for 37 years, while his successor, W. R. Aitken, has been in charge for, as he puts it, ‘a mere 13’.
Clive Bingley and Edwin Fleming
OF THREE senior staff who retired this summer from Strathclyde University's Department of Librarianship in Glasgow, one is going to Italy, one to Wales and one to work. The latter…
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OF THREE senior staff who retired this summer from Strathclyde University's Department of Librarianship in Glasgow, one is going to Italy, one to Wales and one to work. The latter is Dr W R Aitken, who admittedly is confining his ‘work’ to an external examinership at the Aberdeen school of librarianship and membership of the Library Cooperation Committee of the National Library of Scotland, but it is a pleasure to know that this most charming and scholarly librarian will continue to involve himself directly in professional affairs.
A fast firing infra‐red furnace has been evaluated with a standard thick film resistor series at a belt speed of 10 inches/minute giving a door‐to‐door time of 11 minutes. Results…
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A fast firing infra‐red furnace has been evaluated with a standard thick film resistor series at a belt speed of 10 inches/minute giving a door‐to‐door time of 11 minutes. Results are given for a number of furnace profiles at this speed.
When this work was completed, sixteen years ago, interest in library history was much smaller than it is today. Even so, by virtue of its theme and its scholarship, Dr Aitken's…
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When this work was completed, sixteen years ago, interest in library history was much smaller than it is today. Even so, by virtue of its theme and its scholarship, Dr Aitken's thesis deserved formal publication much sooner. As some readers of Library Review will know, since 1964 the text has been available on microfilm and in Xerox copies of the original typescript, but grateful as we should be to the Microfilm Association of Great Britain for venturing where the established publishers of books on librarianship feared to tread, it is a relief to have this invaluable history in orthodox form as a sturdy, portable, well‐printed volume.
IT is difficult now for me to realize that my first impression on joining the R.A.F. was that so many people read so little. All around one heard views and opinions on films…
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IT is difficult now for me to realize that my first impression on joining the R.A.F. was that so many people read so little. All around one heard views and opinions on films, dance bands, race horses, and football pools; but books were rarely mentioned. It was somewhat alarming to find one had stumbled into a bookless world.
Dr. Ranganathan is generally acclaimed as one of the most original and stimulating minds devoted to the science of librarianship. The fourth edition of his Classified Catalogue…
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Dr. Ranganathan is generally acclaimed as one of the most original and stimulating minds devoted to the science of librarianship. The fourth edition of his Classified Catalogue Code reinforces that judgement: it is a subtle and provocative book.
One of my favourite quotations is the opening of Robin Jenkins's novel, Happy for the Child: “Pages 256 and 257 were missing. Shocked, the boy slowly and in fear became aware that…
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One of my favourite quotations is the opening of Robin Jenkins's novel, Happy for the Child: “Pages 256 and 257 were missing. Shocked, the boy slowly and in fear became aware that the book in his hands was merely a destructible contrivance of gum and paper, and that in spite of it round him in the little kitchen crowded the familiar baleful furniture …..” For me this captures and expresses vividly the sense of complete absorption, the feeling of total immersion one can experience in reading, and it springs to mind immediately as a first response to the Editor's suggestion that I should jot down some notes and comments on “books that have particularly attracted me” in my reading over the years.