New Library World: Volume 79 Issue 12

Comment

Bill Lowndes, Alan Day, Frank Baguley, Roger Shrigley, Elizabeth Russell Taylor

ON MAY 1ST, 1766, diligent newspaper readers, perusing the front pages of their favourite journals over breakfast, noticed a brief announcement amongst the plethora of…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Edwin Fleming

OF THREE senior staff who retired this summer from Strathclyde University's Department of Librarianship in Glasgow, one is going to Italy, one to Wales and one to work. The latter…

Flying visit to Frankfurt

AFTER Leningrad, there was only one other place on my see‐before‐I‐die list, and that was Frankfurt am Main—or rather, that great chunk of it called the Internationale Messestadt…