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CITY LIBRARIAN
A.B. CRAVENIn 1946 F. G. B. Hutchings succeeded R. J. Gordon as City Librarian of Leeds after three years as his deputy. By then Gordon had greatly improved the Leeds library system…
COMRADE AND CAPTAIN
JOHN BEBBINGTONLike many young men of my generation, I was attracted by the internationally renowned Leeds system under R. J. Gordon. I joined the staff there in 1935, three years after…
CRAFTSMAN AND CLYDESIDER
HAROLD NICHOLSAt the close of his professional life Fred Hutchings had no regrets for the course his career had taken. This was not complacency but a quiet satisfaction that he had made the…
CRITIC AND CREATOR
J.H. HAISTEF. G. B. Hutchings came almost a generation after the early “organisation”men — R. J. Gordon, J. P. Lamb, and their contemporaries. He was in many ways more seminal and more…
COLLEAGUE AND COUNSELLOR
LIONEL DURBIDGEPRELUDE “A child's abnormalities may prove his subsequent strength as an individual”: that scathing note annotating an article in an American library periodical typifies…
COMMAND AND CONTINUITY: A NOTE
GRAHAM JONESErratically before World War II and consistently thereafter data exist which support comparative study of standards of provision in most British public libraries. If we accept the…