New Library World: Volume 79 Issue 1

Comment

Monica Humphries, Liz Chapman, Barry Bowes, CC Aguolu, Anita Wright, David Radmore

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS subject headings are relatively unusual in this country and they do provide for some relatively unusual headings. ‘Ground effect machines’ and ‘one‐leg resting…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Clive Martin, Helen Moss

I MUST SAY, I was astonished to read in the editorial in the November issue of Assistant librarian the bald declaration that AL ‘is broke’. I mean, whatever will the printers…

Libraries, truth and A J Ayer

Brian Griffin

A LIBRARIAN trying to make up his mind about the rôle of books, information, and culture in the modern world could do a lot worse than read A J Ayer's recent autobiography, Part…

The Shallow end

Robert Shallow

NEWLY‐PROMOTED Chief Librarian Thrasher had three main objectives. Number one was achieved at the first series of committee and council meetings after his translation: he was…