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A Connecticut Librarian in Great Britain: A look at some middle‐sized public libraries
Nolan LushingtonAT THE OUTSET of this article I should reveal my prejudices. I am an Anglophile. I have visited England several times and enjoy greatly the ambience of British life. This is, I…
The Imaginative World of John Buchan
Marjorie SykesIT HAS BEEN SAID that one of the marks of greatness in a writer is that his characters cease to be ‘people in a book’, becoming instead the intimate friends of the reader. By that…
The Library at Vailima
A.E. DayTO WRITE that Robert Louis Stevenson in his books and essays draws deeply upon his own experiences to an unusual degree would be commonplace, but it is precisely because of this…
A Touch of Class: Impressions of Hillhead Library, Glasgow
Allan WhatleyHILLHEAD is Glasgow's West End, densely populated by mainly middle‐class citizens. The district has been crying out for a library service for fifty years. Now it must be very…
Fishing for Fishermen
Gordon JohnsonMOST PEOPLE in the library world at some time in their lives get around to investigating the old family tree, partly out of some hope of finding an interesting hero or villain to…
The Literature of Retirement
Muriel M. GreenMEN AND WOMEN about to retire are not always fortunate in having lectures on retirement available in their locality as, for example, Londoners have in the twelve‐week courses at…
Nineteenth‐Century ‘Swingers’: The Movable Press at the British Museum
Barbara McCrimmonIN A LIFETIME OF SERVICE to the British Museum Library, Richard Garnett was especially proud of one contribution for which he had difficulty in getting recognition. This was the…