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Library Review 26,1
CONFIDENCE towards the future is by no means common in these times. That is why the decision of W. & R. Holmes to continue publication of LIBRARY REVIEW—despite the loss through…
SOCIOLOGY, MANAGEMENT AND LIBRARIES
MALCOLM LEWISThe following paper had something of a rough passage through LR's refereeing procedure. One comment was that the three elements in its title did not cohere. Nevertheless, it was…
STACK ROUTINE:: the shelves assistant
ALLAN WHATLEYAS FAR AS I know very few libraries have a designated post of Shelves Assistant. Firstly, it is necessary for there to be a reference library of ancient vintage and of…
MOBILE MANAGEMENT
GORDON JOHNSONOPERATING a mobile library service is not a subject currently considered in library schools to any great extent. Perhaps this is as things should be, for what the librarian in…
OPERATIONAL RESEARCH LITERATURE FOR LIBRARY/INFORMATION STAFF:: some primers for ‘management science’
JOAN SEGHRAMTHE TERM operational research was coined, it is said, in 1937. From 1957 it became familiar to British librarians in the planning stages of the National Lending Library, Boston…
WEIR OF THE NEWS:: yesterday's mediaman
KENNETH CAMERONTHE INTER‐RELATIONSHIPS between the flowering of the fourth estate and popular literature, the democratisation of the reading public, and the growth of radicalism in the first…
APPRECIATIONS: Through a lens, darkly
“WHAT PRICE educational technology now?” This was the pessimistic title of an article contributed by Geoffrey Hubbard, Director of the Council for Educational Technology, to the…
EVALUATIONS: REVIEW ARTICLE
A. BROADFIELDThe flight from reason: essays on intellectual freedom in the academy, the press and the library. By DAVID K. BERNINGHAUSEN. Chicago: A.L.A., 1975. 175p. Paper‐backed, $7·50.