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Examines the possible relationships between late career disengagement from work and satisfaction with and adaptation to retirement for a sample of 73 retirees. Also explores personality dynamics, values and professional interests of the respondents in relation to the career disengagement phenomenon.

Previous studies have investigated the career management field by describing individual career management activities in isolation rather than the configuration of these activities. Aims to bridge this gap by proposing a taxonomy of career systems. Based on a sample of 254 organizations, empirically derives three types of career system using cluster analysis, and validates this taxonomy against external variables not used in cluster analysis. Identifies and discusses these three types of career system.

The third Annual Meeting of the Library Association to be held in Manchester should prove to be as profitable as the former meetings there. The manifold interests of the great cotton city, its activities, commercial and intellectual, its intense artistic life—so curiously at variance with its apparently materialistic atmosphere—its many libraries, some of them with real traditions; these things should go to make the 1921 meeting memorable.

RARELY has its sense of timing and pragmatic approach to current problems been better employed by the Industrial Society than in organizing a two‐day conference within four days of Britain's entry into the European Economic Community. The aim behind ‘Into Europe—People at Work’ was badly needed. No major policy has been so bedevilled by confusion and uncertainty as our entry, greeted with a fanfare by some and lamented by a dirge from others.