New Library World: Volume 81 Issue 12

Editorial

BOB USHERWOOD'S letter (this issue) about the proposed Code of Ethics is welcome. As he points out, the draft code has been published in the October LAR and it should be studied…

Comment

James G Ollé, WA Munford, Barbara Palmer Casini, Bill McCoubrey, Vincent McDonald, Wilfred Ashworth

I WAS shopping in a strange town when my eyes caught the sign SECOND‐HAND BOOKS—SALE TODAY IN THE BASEMENT. An iron filing can no more resist a magnet than I can resist the…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Edwin Fleming, Sarah Lawson

THERE MUST BE, I think, some sort of automatic professional override‐switch which cuts in on lawyers and slows them down to a pace not exceeding two yards per hour whenever two…

The Shallow end

Robert Shallow

WHEN WE crib a good thing for this column from somewhere else we don't present it as original thought. This new service which we are considering introducing for our readers…