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The Library World Volume 16 Issue 10
Tập 16 Số 10 - Trang 288-320
In an analysis such as this, on the working of a special department of the library, references to the work of other departments, and to library administration in general, cannot be omitted, since the duties of the various departments to some extent overlap. One aspect of the subject— that of private reference libraries in the larger business offices— has not been mentioned, because there is no lit......
The Library World Volume 66 Issue 1
Tập 66 Số 1 - Trang 1-28
The re‐organisation of local government in Greater London and the resultant amalgamation of library authorities is viewed by many with considerable misgivings. The upheaval of staff, the loss of status for some senior officers, the general uncertainty for the future—these are very real consequences of the Act and they cannot be ignored. Many chief librarians will see the work of a lifetime, perhap......
The Library World Volume 63 Issue 11
Tập 63 Số 11 - Trang 273-304
I HAVE TRIED TO SHOW on a previous occasion (L.A.R. August, 1956) that successful book provision results from the integration of three factors which govern individual reader transactions, namely, readers, books and accessibility.
The Library World Volume 31 Issue 10
Tập 31 Số 10 - Trang 223-248
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......
Books to rural users: public library provision for remote communities
Tập 104 Số 3 - Trang 80-93
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......
The Library World Volume 57 Issue 6
Tập 57 Số 6 - Trang 105-124
ANOTHER new year, in which we wish our readers continued prosperity in our chosen profession, finds most of us with a new diary and all the aspirations which that suggests. It should be a good year culminating in interest with the Folkestone Conference in September. Under the presidency of Mr. Edward Sydney, whose chairmanship has always a certain vigorous individuality, we should do well. As the ......
The Library World Volume 57 Issue 11
Tập 57 Số 11 - Trang 205-224
FOR public libraries the Ministerial statement that proposals for the future of local government will be laid before Parliament before October may prove to be most significant. We say may, because such preliminaries usually raise undue expectations. Meanwhile during the summer speculation may range over the public library possibilities of the situation. Will the known blue‐prints made for us come ......
The Library World Volume 29 Issue 11
Tập 29 Số 11 - Trang 279-304
WE give space this month to practical library binders to describe their work as they see it. Such an arrangement will commend itself to our readers, we hope, as there is no more present question with the librarian, and especially the public librarian. Since the war the quality of book‐papers has been such that binding has become the most formidable item in his annual budget except salaries and new......
What future for carto‐bibliography?
Tập 73 Số 11 - Trang 288-290
‘CARTO‐BIBLIOGRAPHY’ must surely be just about the ugliest term in a cartographer's vocabulary, but to its inventor, Sir Henry George Fordham, it represented something of the very greatest significance, and it is as well for us that it did. It was in 1896 that Sir George made his decision to compile a catalogue of Hertfordshire maps, ‘little conscious’, he was later to confide, ‘of the amplitude s......
The Library World Volume 34 Issue 3
Tập 34 Số 3 - Trang 72-104
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......