TY - JOUR AB - THREE years of the new age are coming to an end, and the cynic may feel that it is not achieving much. In the greater outside world, perhaps not, but the necessity of all who believe in life is to keep on trying to realize our hopes. In libraries there could be no spectacular material progress in 1947 because the conditions were worse for building, for the production of fittings and even for substantial internal library development were worse than in 1946. Yet we cannot help noticing here and there active signs that our work is not stagnant. The publications of libraries that reach us, and especially the revised and in many cases, their greatly improved annual reports are one encouraging sign. VL - 50 IS - 6 SN - 0307-4803 DO - 10.1108/eb009310 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009310 PY - 1948 Y1 - 1948/01/01 TI - The Library World Volume 50 Issue 6 T2 - New Library World PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 85 EP - 100 Y2 - 2024/04/24 ER -