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Books to rural users: public library provision for remote communities
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Discusses alternative methods of providing a public library service to one‐house stop clients of south Lincolnshire’s mobile libraries. A literature review revealed a lack of up‐to‐date cost information for alternative methods of service provision. Four methods were selected for further investigation: books by mail; village shop libraries; extending the housebound service; and transporting clients......
Role changing for librarians in the new information technology era
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– This paper aims to show how implementing new information technology has expanded the role of librarians as educators and how this role has matched the evolution of new technology., – The paper looks at librarians' approaches to their role as educators and explores ways of most effectively implementing changes. By reviewing the literature and taking the old discourse around library education and ......
The Library World Volume 71 Issue 12
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IN December, 1964, Messrs. A. G. Sheppard Fidler and Associates, of Epsom, were commissioned by the Epsom and Ewell Borough Council to prepare a project design for a new building on a six‐acre site in Ewell, to house:—
The Library World Volume 31 Issue 10
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THE best professional progress of recent times is indicated by a paragraph in the Council Notes of the L.A. which seems to suggest that the Association of Assistant Librarians may soon become united to the L.A. A successful meeting has been held between representatives of both bodies at which difficulties have been smoothed away. We hear that the Birmingham and District Library Association is also......
The Library World Volume 34 Issue 3
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ANOTHER Conference has passed, this year in circumstances of national gravity which made every thoughtful library worker anxious. In such times the word “economy,” the most familiar of misused words, becomes almost a shriek even upon the lips of honest thinkers, and is not confined to those persons—the great majority of its users—who think the word means “making the other fellow do without somethi......
Post‐apartheid Southern Africa: A glimmer of networking
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Black Southern African librarians have, up to now, shied away from contact with their white counterparts in South Africa. Who could blame them for this, when the South African Library Association (SALA), in the early 1960s, deliberately closed its doors to black members? Black librarians formed their own association, the Bantu Library Association, which later became the African Library Association......
Industrial library news
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AS INDUSTRIAL LIBRARIANS we are conscious of increasing efforts being made by the major public libraries to serve information to all those executives whose companies pay substantial rates towards the maintenance of local library services. LESLIE SMYTH, Commercial Librarian at Manchester Public Library spoke recently of the efforts being made to serve industry better. It is with his kind agreement ......
Comment
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FOLLOWING ON from Roy Tomlinson's article (NLW July), while agreeing with much that he says I would like to enlarge on some points. I had hoped that the educational technology argument had been laid to rest after the publication in the Times higher educational supplement of correspondence occasioned by the Library Association's statements on resource centres.