...Joachim Schöpfel; Claire Leduc Purpose This paper is aimed primarily at academic library managers and acquisition librarians. By analogy to Pareto studying the relationship between clients and turnover, the paper will study subscriptions to e‐journals and usage statistics. The aim is to evaluate...

...John C. Crawford Reviews Leadhills Library, Britain’s first subscription library and also the first subscription library in Britain to have a working‐class base. It originated the ideology of mutual improvement as applied to libraries in Scotland, which has clear links with the social philosophy...

...Geoffrey Forster Discusses the survival of a few subscription libraries, and the conditions for that survival in relation to the general decline of such libraries over the last century. Outlines the present state of surviving subscription libraries with particular reference to fundraising...