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It is well known that the power of a party wall surveyor appointed under the London Building Acts (Amendment) Act 1939, is great indeed. He can, by his award, bind his appointing owner to times and methods of working — indeed to works themselves — and that award cannot be questioned once 14 days have elapsed after delivery to the building and the adjoining owners by their respective surveyors. He cannot — contrary to an opinion I have just received in a letter from an irate owner, who completely misunderstands the operation of the Act — be discharged once he has been duly appointed. He is answerable to no man: only to the Act and to his professional judgment and conscience.

Jolted by a slump in home sales, US computer companies thrust deeper into Europe. Collaboration among European firms is seen as one way of meeting the threat. Meanwhile ICL's Sir John Wall (opposite) is out to kill the industry's mystique. Richard Brooks reports.

The Seminar on Library Interior Layout and Design organised by IFLA's Section on Library Buildings and Equipment, and attended by people from over twenty‐two countries, was held at Frederiksdal, Denmark, in June 1980. This present article neither reports on the Seminar's proceedings, as it is hoped to publish the papers in due course, nor describes fully the Danish public libraries seen, but rather uses the Seminar's theme and the library visits as a point of departure for considering some aspects of the interior layout—the landscape—of public libraries. Brief details of the new Danish public libraries visited are given in a table at the end of the article.

An analysis of recent trends in juvenile employment and their significance to the bulge

NOW that it is generally acknowledged that open‐access has come to stay, the attention of Public Librarians is becoming directed more to matters of detail in management, and less to the broader questions of policy. So far, however, the larger details, such as planning and interior arrangement, classification, and methods of issue—to name a few—have received most consideration, and there are many points of great importance to the practical utility of the library which yet remain to be dealt with systematically. It is on one of these points, the provision of Guides, that I propose to touch.