TY - JOUR AB - We wonder if, in the history of the world, any conference devoted to the intellectual interests of mankind has ever been held in such circumstances as made memorable the Fortieth Annual Meeting of the Library Association. For the whole week before those in and near London had been submitted to an ordeal well calculated to try the strongest nerves; an ordeal borne, it is true, with remarkable stoicism, but, nevertheless, one not likely to induce that calm, judicial frame of mind in which library topics should be discussed. Fortunately, however, the night before the opening meeting was the last of that particular series of air attacks, and the whole meeting passed in peace, so far as London was concerned. Raids and rumours of them may have reduced the attendance somewhat; it is fair to suppose that they did; yet the attendance, when all things are considered, was creditable to the Association. VL - 20 IS - 4 SN - 0307-4803 DO - 10.1108/eb009019 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009019 PY - 1917 Y1 - 1917/01/01 TI - The Library World Volume 20 Issue 4 T2 - New Library World PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 83 EP - 112 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -