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CRUS—Its Functions and Aims
K. Wilson‐DavisCRUS (the Centre for Research on User Studies) started operations on 5 January 1976 as an independent research institute attached to the University of Sheffield and funded for its…
Reference Back: Herbert Woodbine, reference librarian and bibliographer
Allan WhatleyWHEN I BEGAN MY LIBRARY CAREER in the Birmingham Public Libraries in 1930 I came directly under the instruction of two men: Herbert Woodbine, who worked there from 1911 to 1944…
Cost‐Benefit Analysis and Public Library Budgets
D. Pitt FrancisRECENT YEARS have witnessed the proliferation of applications of cost‐benefit analysis to public sector expenditure. Cost‐benefit analysis is a method of decision‐making which…
The Magician's Library
Caroline E. WerkleyTHERE IS SIGNIFICANCE, perhaps, in the fact that in 1876, the year the first library in Moberly, Missouri, probably disappeared, a Wizard came to town. Professor Macallister, the…
On the Road to Katmandu
Alec DonaldsonIT WAS KNOWN as the Legation Bungalow. It was single storeyed, white, and buitt to a Colonial style. It had shady verandas, it was set in pleasant grounds, and, in the…
A Glisk o' Douglas Young throu a Wheen o' his Poems
Margaret MarshallDOUGLAS YOUNG, poet, scholar, Scottish Nationalist and internationalist, is described by the poet William Soutar after their first meeting as ‘an exceedingly tall fellow with a…
The Glow and Gusto of H. L. Mencken's So and So's
Harry C. BauerTHE HUM AND DRUM OF WORD SOUNDS is irresistible and infectious. Words team up naturally and magnificently when they are linked in tandem by the coordinate conjunction and. This…
From Collected Biography to Prosopography
R.P. SturgesTO THE LIBRARIAN biographical dictionaries are useful works of reference, but to their compilers they can mean a great deal more. Take for instance the Rev. Henry Isham Longden…
A Painter's Books: Constable's Library
G.E. FussellIT WOULD BE an impertinence to Constable for anyone not specifically devoted to art to criticize his paintings. Anyhow this has recently been done with a good deal of réclame. His…
The Two Jacks: J. B. Priestley and C. S. Lewis
Brian GriffinJ.B. PRIESTLEY has always been Jack Priestley to his friends; but what is not so well known is the fact that Clive Staples Lewis was also intimately known as Jack. In early…
Notes and News
The Amelia Frances Howard‐Gibbon medal of the Canadian Library Association, established in 1971 to honour outstanding illustrators of Canadian children's books, has been awarded…