Library Review: Volume 16 Issue 8

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Does Library History Matter?

PROF. RAYMOND IRWIN

Why bother with history at all? In particular why bother with the history of a subject so narrowly specialised as libraries? This is a fair question that many people ask today…

Book Catalogues: Their Varieties and Uses

J.R. SEATON

The catalogues of printed books of the British Museum, the Bibliothèque Nationale, and, since the War, the Library of Congress, have become such indispensable tools for scholars…

Books Will Become More Important

E.M. HARGREAVES

Despite the constant cries of the prophets of gloom, there is little evidence that television or rock ‘n’ roll or any other of the modern crazes has really stopped people reading…

Read and Throw Away

FRANK M. GARDNER

I was born, for good or ill, into a reading family. Not an intellectual family, for we did not read for profit, but a family that counted the act of reading one of the major…

Book Title Troubles

DAVID GUNSTON

The title of a book often gives its author more trouble than the actual writing. Only rarely does an author start with a title ready‐made; more often he finishes the book and then…

Canadian Libraries and Problems of Staff Recruitment

ERIK J. SPICER

With comments by J. C. Harrison, Prof. Raymond Irwin, and W. B. Paton.

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0024-2535

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1927 – 2017

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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