New Library World: Volume 96 Issue 3

An idealist’s charter for public libraries

David Owen

If there is such a thing as the “public librarymovement”, where is it today and where is it going? Discusses themotive forces that shape its values and beliefs and how they differ…

Beyond the sword of Damocles: challenges facing school library services

Gordon Dickins

School library services (SLSs) have faced a tremendous period ofchange since the late 1980s, much of it resulting from the EducationReform Act which brought about the national…

The library, the bookshop and the literature centre

Robert Walters

The rationale of the public library as provider of works of theimagination is usually given as secondary to that of information.Examining the differing roles of libraries and…

Thriving amid chaos: health care and library services in the 1990s

Michael Carmel

Describes the fundamental structural changes taking place in theNHS and health care education and how these affect the provision oflibrary services. Defines the strategies adopted…

Academic libraries in the information society

Sheila Corrall

The way that higher education library services are viewed, plannedand managed must change radically if they are to survive and thrive inthe future. Advances in technology…

The librarian at the end of the galaxy

Ross Shimmon

Assesses the future of libraries and librarians regarding theimpact of technology; presents evidence for and against their decline.Particular points made include: the example of a…