... --> Detective fiction Crime Biography Literature Crime writing is probably the most popular genre in public libraries. In her chapter on themes and types of crime fiction, Diana Tixier Herald, the compiler of the sixth edition of Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests (2006...

...Robin Myers; Michael Harris; Giles Mandelbrote Lives in Print: Biography and the Book Trade from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century . Oak Knoll Press and the British Library , 2002 . xiv+208 pp.   £24.96 Oak Knoll: 1‐58456‐094‐0 British Library: 0‐7123‐4796‐8 © Emerald Group...

... Biography Authors This is the largest and longest‐running of 40 research projects begun in the National Library of Austria since 1988. That date is significant for Jews in that it coincided with Dr Kurt Waldheim’s tenure of the Presidency of Austria, during which he endured accusations of his...

...Alan Day K.C.   Harrison . A Librarian’s Odyssey: Episodes of Autobiography . Eastbourne, Sussex : The author   2000 . viii+232pp. , ISBN: 0 9538068 0 4   £17.00 Libraries History Librarians Biography Born 85 years ago and, happily, still with us, not many...

...Ian Rogerson Gerald   Cinamon . Rudolf Koch: Letterer, Type Designer, Teacher . New Castle, Delaware; London : Oak Knoll Press; The British Library   2000 . , ISBN: 0 7123 4659 7   $49.95 Biography Design Books Rudolf Koch was the most influential figure...

... of 1636 while Harvard himself was still in England; but at his death in 1638 he bequeathed half of his estate and all his books to the college. The nature of his private library is described and discussed. © MCB UP Limited 2000 University libraries History Biography USA It must go...

..., following his bankruptcy in 1816 are indicated. The nature and extent of his legacy, especially in Liverpool itself, is discussed. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Biography Books William Roscoe (1753‐1831) is the outstanding example of literary scholarship in Liverpool’s history. Born in Liverpool...

... bookish culture, for virtually the rest of the nineteenth century. At any rate, for book‐lovers everywhere, a brief consideration of what Patrick Brontë read at Cambridge is surely significant for literary as well as religious history. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Biography History Private...

...Stuart James David   Gerard . Another Country: A Season in Archaeology . Wilmslow : Elvet Press   1994 . 133 pp. , ISBN: 0 9510076 4 3   £5.50 Biography History Librarians What makes up a librarian? Surely it must be the whole man or woman. We are none of us...

...Stuart James Biography History Librarians What makes up a librarian? Surely it must be the whole man or woman. We are none of us so compartmentalised that we can separate our library and non‐library experience. Background, upbringing, education, and other experiences, all go...

... enterprise, Strahan was briefly quite prominent, and he accomplished much that was substantial and even permanent in the literary sense chiefly by publishing the works of Tennyson. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Biography Career development History Publishing United Kingdom Alexander Strahan...

...K.C. Harrison Africa Biography Librarians Wilfred Plumbe is an English librarian with a remarkable record. Without having had the benefit of a university education himself, he became university librarian of no fewer than six universities in Commonwealth countries in Asia, Africa...

...William Baker Eight of the 17 essays have been written especially for Sir Robert Cotton as Collector. Kevin Sharpe’s introduction: “Rewriting Sir Robert Cotton” is a succinct yet detailed summary of the field since the publication of his seminal 1979 biography Sir Robert Cotton 1586...

... of National and University Libraries). Poor coverage of Irish material (especially that in Irish language) in existing bibliographies. Librarian of Magee University College, Londonderry. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Academic libraries Bibliography Biography Member of the Advisory...

... grateful to his colleagues at Glasgow University Library, to the SCONUL Secretariat and to Ann Matheson of the National Library of Scotland for their invaluable contributions. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Academic libraries Biography Careers UK In 1978, Glasgow University had the difficult...

... Life . Lanham Md : Scarecrow Press   1997 . 340 pp , ISBN: 0 8108 3241 0   £56 UK distribution by Shelwing Ltd, Folkestone Biography Librarianship USA “With my promotion to Serials Librarian I began the year 1952 spending less time at the general reference desk in order to focus...

... on comparative linguistics, including a Turkish Grammar (1856), an Arabic Grammar (1857) and a Persian Grammar (1858). He became particularly interested in the literature pertaining to the American Civil War (1864‐1866). © MCB UP Limited 1998 Biography Book trade...

... Cities, Vol. II, Bibliotekstjänst, Lund, 1965. 11. Harrison, K.C., Libraries in Scandinavia, 2nd revised edition, André Deutsch, London, 1969. 12. Berriman, S.G. and Harrison, K.C.,British Public Library Buildings,AndréDeutsch, London, 1966. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Biography Libraries...

... of the post into that of a professional librarian in the twentieth century is illustrated. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Biography Librarians The Librarians of Glasgow University over 350 Years: 1641-1991 Peter Hoare University of Nottingham Librarians of Glasgow University 27 No complete list...

...Stuart James The 150th anniversary of Thomas Hardy′s birth is briefly noted and a number of recent publications on the author and his work are noted in the context of his corpus of critical material on him. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Biography Literature Publishing Thomas Hardy 1840/1990...