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In August 1947 I had the good fortune to be offered a post at Westminster Public Libraries. No doubt I flatter myself, but I regard it as an example of Lionel McColvin's open‐mindedness that I was selected presumably for apparent ability rather than on the basis of lengthy and appropriate experience. Certainly, after nearly six years in the army and a year at a school of librarianship to complete the Library Association examinations, I was singularly short on the latter. The post to which I was appointed was Head of the Accessions Department; and although I was nominally responsible to the Chief Cataloguer, in practice I largely reported direct to the City Librarian — an unusual position for a comparatively junior officer.