FORTY YEARS ON

WITH this issue LIBRARY REVIEW completes forty years of publication. When the periodical first appeared in 1927 its founder and editor claimed that LIBRARY REVIEW had ‘a field and a purpose of its own’. R. D. Macleod saw his ‘popular magazine on libraries and literature’ as an essential complement to the rapidly developing county library movement—‘Its concern will be with county libraries … and with libraries working in co‐operation with them’—and claimed that it would view ‘library work as social educational work of the highest importance’. Its ‘clear‐cut policy’ was to seek ‘to advance the standard of library service by helping all who administer or minister to the service’.