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PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICES IN MALAYSIA: AN ANALYSIS
LIM HUCK TEEAlexander Wilson belongs to a long line of British librarians who have contributed significantly to the development of libraries and librarianship in Malaysia. His major…
INTO A NEW CHESHIRE
PATRICK GEEThe public library service for the County of Cheshire administered by the former Cheshire County Council since 1922 was mainly a book lending service to the more rural areas of…
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICE TO LOCAL AUTHORITY ELECTED MEMBERS AND STAFF
EDWIN FLEMINGThe large scale and far reaching functions of local government in the United Kingdom today are eloquent proofs of the universal demand for local services of high quality and wide…
PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND THE ARTS
W.R. MAIDMENTIt is not unfair to say that the arts in association with public libraries have been hampered in Britain (1) by financial restrictions (2) by legal restrictions and (3) by the…
PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOKSTOCK MANAGEMENT
DOUG BETTSAs I listened recently to Alex Wilson delivering a paper on conservation I was reminded of his excellence as a lucid communicator of ideas, enthusiasm and timely sense of…
RESEARCH AND THE PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMUNITY
GRAHAM JONES“How I hate these attempts to measure the immeasurable,” wrote the young and abrasive chief of Rugby in 1938, reviewing the current output of transatlantic professional writing…
CONSERVATION AND THE LIBRARY COMMUNITY
ANTONIA BUNCHAs Nicholas Barker has pointed out, concern with the problem of deteriorating books has a long history. In 1898 the Prefect of the Vatican Library convened an international…