Ici on Parle…

IF THERE ARE STILL LIBRARIANS in the Outer Hebrides or the far‐flung bastions of Greater Brummagen who cannot quite get the hang of cataloguing and faceted classification—or any other, for that matter—they may be grateful for the equivalent of a phrase‐book, so that they can carry on intelligent conversation if they happened to be marooned with a member of the Classification or Cataloguing Research Groups, or even Dr Ranganathan himself, at a conference lunch or on a slightly delayed British Railway train.