R.S.V.P. or Receiving Some Valuable Publicity Available to Purchase

IT IS WITH EXTREME CAUTION that one dares to assert that something unique, original or even unusual has been achieved, but I do not know of any other British public library that has initiated three publication parties for local authors in the last two years. This has been achieved by Nottinghamshire County Library and this article is an acccount of these efforts in book promotion. Unfortunately, librarians are not often thought of as promoters of books, mainly because they have always been more concerned with their collection, preservation and lending.