New Library World: Volume 87 Issue 7
Table of contents
A Little Bit On The Side
PETER LABDONThis book was first commissioned as Report 5876 to the British Library Research and Development Department. It records the input of funds to public libraries from external sources…
Anomie, Books, Money and Libraries
ROGER KIRKPATRICKIn talking to librarians, as a publisher, I feel like a book reviewer talking to the author whose book he has reviewed — rather embarrassed and am reminded of Stephen Potter's…
Anything Nostalgic — A Find‐all Service
Anything Nostalgic began in 1980, a year after Pam and Bill Gulliver gained their Bachelor of Arts Degree at Reading University. They tried to gain employment equal to their…
Our Woman In America
RUTH KERNSA new word has been coined in America — “grambo‐ed”. It combines the current movie character, Rambo, with the Gramm‐Rudman‐Hollings budget law which has severely curtailed, among…
Research
TONY WARSHAWMargaret O'Hare left BLRDD on 30 June to take up an appointment as Secretary General to the World Confederation for Physical Therapy. She has been with BLRDD since it joined the…
Commercial & Technical
EDWIN FLEMINGIn the spring this year, the new Registrar of Companies, Stephen Curtis (NLW, December 1985) wrote to all, or nearly all, the public libraries which subscribe to the CRO…
Community information
ALLAN BUNCHFor me the term ‘pyramid selling’ conjures up a picture of back street Cairo, with wily Arab entrepreneurs trying to con gullible tourists into buying a bit of the old…
Alerts
WILFRED ASHWORTHA press notice from the City of Westminster reports that a phone‐for‐the‐deaf service is being tested in Marylebone Public Library. From the Library the deaf person rings an…