New Library World: Volume 81 Issue 2

Editorial

ALMOST IN anticipation of our enquiry ‘When is a book not a book?’ (NLW January), the Secretary‐General of the Library Association obtained, and published, a legal opinion on the…

Comment

Barbara Bampton, Malcolm Key, Ken Jones, David Reid

INFORMED CONCERN for the pre‐school child was the motive which brought together five research assistants from varying backgrounds in 1977, to set up an Early Childhood Information…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Wilfred Ashworth, Edwin Fleming, Sarah Lawson

SINCE I have spent the better part of fifteen years parading in the public arena the superiority which attaches to me by reason of not possessing a television set, I had better…

The Shallow end

Robert Shallow

In future, the Secretary of the Library Association will be known as the Secretary‐General, it was decided at the Council meeting on November 2. Professor Keith Harris said that…