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A survey of the career patterns of librarians in the Ministry of Defence was carried out in 1992. At the time it was the most comprehensive survey on the topic carried out in any government department in the UK. Provides data on choice of career, professional qualifications, career history in librarianship, singleton posts, mobility, career breaks Civil Service careers, alternative working patterns, present jobs, job description, future career plans, background information and attitudes. Finds that the career patterns of staff in government libraries do not differ greatly from those in other types of library, but there is much frustration and uncertainty about the future. Suggests that the Civil Service system does not always work as it is intended to.

At the beginning of the century children were put to reading and writing rather earlier than they are now. So I remember that at the age of nine I was engaged with Stanley Weyman and listening to the swish of silks and clash of swords in A Gentleman of France and Under the Red Robe. I had already been immensely excited by the glint of diamonds in King Solomon's Mines. I can remember now the hour and the place in which I first encountered that piece of cake.

MANY and various are the problems both of finance and administration, but usually the more pressing of finance, connected with the establishment and maintenance of Branch libraries. It is the more surprising that the subject has been very little discussed or written about. If not looking too far ahead, I would suggest to the Council of the Library Association, and more especially the Publications Committee, that the topic be taken up at the next but one Annual Meeting, and that two whole days might very well be devoted to its consideration.