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YOU WILL HAVE seen, no doubt, recent announcements that my wife and I have sold our book‐publishing business of Clive Bingley Ltd to the Munich‐based firm of international…
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YOU WILL HAVE seen, no doubt, recent announcements that my wife and I have sold our book‐publishing business of Clive Bingley Ltd to the Munich‐based firm of international reference publishers, Verlag Dokumentation.
Clive Bingley, Clive Martin and Helen Moss
MELVYN BARNES, Borough Librarian & Arts Officer of the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (London), was asked to prepare a report for his libraries committee on the possibility…
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MELVYN BARNES, Borough Librarian & Arts Officer of the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (London), was asked to prepare a report for his libraries committee on the possibility of selling withdrawn library books to the public—that rumbling bandwagon which inevitably looks attractive to local authorities in hard times.
Clive Bingley, Clive Martin and Helen Moss
TRY THIS ONE, if you are not susceptible to apoplectic fits!
Clive Bingley, Helen Moss and Clive Martin
WITH, several days later, some residue yet of disbelief, allow me to tell you that at the end of October L actually went dancing. After an interval of 15 years since I last…
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WITH, several days later, some residue yet of disbelief, allow me to tell you that at the end of October L actually went dancing. After an interval of 15 years since I last electrified my system in similar fashion, I may further tell you that dancing is no longer what it was.
Clive Bingley, Clive Martin and Helen Moss
I MUST SAY, I was astonished to read in the editorial in the November issue of Assistant librarian the bald declaration that AL ‘is broke’. I mean, whatever will the printers…
Clive Bingley, Helen Moss and Clive Martin
I HAVE learned, with considerable relief, that the Library Association is taking no notice whatever of the peculiar suggestion in NLW's editorial last month that they rush not to…
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I HAVE learned, with considerable relief, that the Library Association is taking no notice whatever of the peculiar suggestion in NLW's editorial last month that they rush not to appoint a new Secretary to succeed Mr Hilliard in September.
Clive Bingley, Helen Moss and Clive Martin
DIFFICULT to judge whether obstinacy, optimism or mere force of habit was the prime motivation for the reintroduction in Parliament in late January of another PLR Bill— effected…
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DIFFICULT to judge whether obstinacy, optimism or mere force of habit was the prime motivation for the reintroduction in Parliament in late January of another PLR Bill— effected by prominent campaigner Lord (Ted) Willis.
Clive Bingley, Helen Moss and Clive Martin
THE NEWS will doubtless appear in the May issue of the Record, and several days after that they will send me a press release just in case the Record's prose style has defeated me…
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THE NEWS will doubtless appear in the May issue of the Record, and several days after that they will send me a press release just in case the Record's prose style has defeated me, announcing that the LA's president‐elect for 1978 is to be Godfrey Thompson, Guildhall Librarian (City of London) and currently Treasurer of the la, as well as a member of our editorial board since its inception. (I had therefore better make it clear that it wasn't Godfrey who told me, or indeed anyone else on the board.)
Clive Bingley, Helen Moss, Clive Martin and Allan Bunch
I AM EARLY on parade this month, dear readers, because during the first week in March, when I should have constructed this column, I had a series of important meetings in a…
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I AM EARLY on parade this month, dear readers, because during the first week in March, when I should have constructed this column, I had a series of important meetings in a village called Alpbach to execute business contracts with ski‐instructors and hoteliers and the like. You people who work in the public domain don't realise the heavy pressures we businessmen have to face.
Clive Bingley, Helen Moss, Clive Martin and Allan Bunch
I AM NOW IN my annual condition of physical incapacitation as a result of my persistently misguided belief that I am not too fat and elderly to play cricket.