... Mussmann′s essay, “The Ugly Side of Librarianship”, concludes bleakly that the American Library Association made few attempts to enforce equal treatment for African‐American members “treated as a permanent American underclass”. One of the virtues of library history not sufficiently emphasised is its...

... s Financial accounting Expenses At last we are moving away from the “access VERSUS ownership” debate to one of “access AND ownership”. Although decisions will continue to be made about whether particular information products should be owned or accessed in some way, the debate has widened...

...Alan Day s Art Graphics Humour Benita L.   Epstein . Interlibrary Loan Sharks and Seedy Roms: Cartoons from Libraryland . Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co   1998 . viii + 111 pp , ISBN: 0 7864 0465 5   20.25 UK distribution by Shelwing Ltd, Folkestone Two...

... by Shelwing Ltd, Folkestone s Buildings Preservation Archives Collection management All concerned with preservation ‐‐ librarians, archivists, conservators ‐‐ will recall the two volumes by G.M. and D.G. Cunha, Conservation of Library Materials: a Manual and Bibliography on the Care...

..., the church‐like Shankhill, Sandyford′s bungalow, the barn‐like Kilcolman (Co. Kerry) and the massive library buildings of Waterford, Cork and the Falls Road (Belfast). Sadly, some of the buildings have been ruthlessly altered; the boarded‐up windows at Killorglin (“The library and garden are now badly...