New Library World: Volume 81 Issue 5

Comment

David A Smith, Rheinallt Llwyd, David Radmore, Peter Gratton, Wilfred Ashworth

ONCE UPON a time there was no need to question the purpose of a good library; it was there as a ‘repository of human knowledge’ and both users and librarians were satisfied with…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Edwin Fleming, Allan Bunch

I AM INFORMED, reliably (I judge), that the severity of the expenditure cuts recently inflicted on the London Borough of Kingston‐upon‐Thames library services—an authority bereft…

The Shallow end

IN THE March issue of NLW, Clive Bingley expressed the wish that sensible young women would stop designating themselves Ms. Apart from the fact that sensible young women never…