RETIREMENT OF DR RICHARD OFFOR Available to Purchase

In February of this year Dr R. Offor retired from his post of Library Adviser to the Inter‐University Council for Higher Education Overseas, and there are many reasons why his retirement calls for special notice. In the first place it closes an unbroken period of library service of some sixty years. This record may have been exceeded in the past—possibly, for example, by Henry Guppy and by B.M. Headicar—but few are likely to surpass it in the future. And Dr Offor's long career has been of great distinction. As a young man he joined the staff of the Library of University College, London in 1901 and remained in that Library, serving under R.W.Chambers, until 1919. Dr Offor was then appointed University Librarian at Leeds, a post which he held until his retirement in 1947 when he was made Emeritus Librarian; and in that same year he was appointed by the Colonial Office as Library Adviser to the Inter‐University Council for Higher Education Overseas.