Brought to Book: Tales from Our Libraries

Recently Bradford Libraries celebrated the 25th anniversary of its“new” Central Library building. Not, to be sure, a world‐shattering event or one of great interest to the library profession (nor, indeed, to some of the public, whose library it is),but one feature concerning this celebration is worthy of note: the memories of past and present library staff. These memories were recorded, and from the new recruit who was asked to tell the City Librarian that the Great War had ended (and who got a penny for his effort), to the new recruit today struggling to master OPACs and the Citizen′s Charter, this record is a valuable documentary resource for both the historian who chronicles the changes in the philosophy and practices in the library service, and to the present‐day librarian.