New Library World: Volume 78 Issue 12

Comment

Melvyn Barnes, Tony Preston, George Jefferson

THE EMOTIVE term ‘over‐supply’ has been used for some years' in the library profession, particularly by those senior librarians who have experienced large numbers of applicants…

Comment

Bernard Palmer, Janet Park

IN THESE days, when all around us are cries of ‘woe! woe!’ because of the cuts in local government spending and the effects these are having on public libraries, it is as well to…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Helen Moss, Clive Martin

WITH, several days later, some residue yet of disbelief, allow me to tell you that at the end of October L actually went dancing. After an interval of 15 years since I last…

How we took the right road

Robert Shallow

I WAS GOING through some of my bookshelves here at home the other day, trying to make room for my latest acquisitions (and almost slipping into treasonable wishing that we had…