New Library World: Volume 88 Issue 1

Hard Time For Library Yuppies?

“Who is the Adaptive Information Manager” ran the somewhat gnomic slogan on the cover of the A5 brochure I extracted from the breakfast time post. Below this early morning…

Small Observations On A Big Scene

HAROLD GOLDSTEIN

I was fortunate to be granted a sabbatical leave for the January‐April (1986) school term, and to be able to spend it at my university's London Study Centre. The nominal duties of…

South African Librarianship: A Dissident View

CHRISTOPHER MERRETT

Education is the scene of bitter struggles in South Africa, but a revolution is occurring making education freely available for all. Librarians are responding positively in some…

Open Learning For Library Assistants: Students Speak

SHEILA MCCULLOUGH, JOHN PATEMAN, Ian Snowley

This article presents some impressions of open learning gained by students enrolled with the Library and Information Science Open Learning Project, based at Telford College in…