The NORTHERN BRANCH: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT

We are met this afternoon to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the inauguration of the Northern Branch of Aslib, but our retrospect should go back further than 8th May, 1946. As I pointed out then, more than ten years earlier there had been in existence a Lancashire and Cheshire Branch, which had compiled a Union List of technical, scientific and commercial periodicals taken by nine libraries in the district, and had arranged a number of informal meetings of Aslib members. The Northern Branch inaugurated ten years ago thus owed much to the earlier work of Miss B. M. Dent and her colleagues of the period 1931–6.