New Library World: Volume 77 Issue 4

Comment

AGS Enser, Frank Jannock, Jon Elliott, Clive Bingley, Griff Hughes, Ken Jones

I SUPPOSE some of us who, professionally, have been subject to the whims of authority, have wished that, for once, we could have changed places with our lords and masters; that…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, John Buchanan, Elaine Kempson

‘I'M MINERVA. ASK ME. Out goes the image of the bespectacled, disapproving librarian, the woman who makes you feel frivolous for taking out nothing more weighty than philosophy…

Kids and things

David Taylor

CURRENTLY on show at Bedford Central Library is the National Book League travelling exhibition, ‘Children's books of the year 1974’. Allied with this is a large and diverse…

Don't just sit there‐suggest something

Robert Shallow

WHEREAS it is amongst other things represented that in one thousand eight hundred and seventy seven an Association was founded in London called ‘The Library Association’—in the…