Teaching costing techniques to librarians and information scientists of the future Available to Purchase

I little thought, when our mutual friend, Leslie Patrick, led me last June towards the giving of this paper on costing techniques, that my standpoint would have changed to the extent that it has. As a teacher lot nine years in the sphere of library management or administration, as it was for so long called, my outlook had been tempered by the Library Association's policy, rigorously maintained, that library education aimed to afford the novice the broadest possible view of librarianship. This meant that the descriptive—no matter how lyrical—was in; the evaluative or critical—using techniques or tools—was out.