New Library World: Volume 82 Issue 11

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Brian Griffin, Kate Hills, Geoff Andrew, Stephen Drodge, Roy Huse, David Reid

I REMEMBER one elderly librarian who insisted on keeping the works of obscure authors like Lermontov on the shelves, even when faced with the plain fact that no dates were ever…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Allan Bunch, Edwin Fleming

AT THE instigation of Peter Labdon, who is County Librarian of Suffolk as well as a member of the executive committee of the National Book League (when his awesome editorial…

The Shallow end

Robert Shallow

I HAVE had a soft spot for the Bibliotheca Britannica ever since Ronald Benge recounted to us, his students of historical bibliography at the Northwestern Polytechnic, the…