The Library World Volume 60 Issue 5

ESTIMATE time is here again. Yet once more librarians are preparing their plans for next year with the same mixture of realistic pessimism coloured with only occasional dashes of idealistic optimism. Some of them during the past nine months will have made an effort to create and foster a higher regard for the library service among their councillors, and none but the most blatant cynic would suggest that such efforts are foredoomed in the harsh atmosphere of the finance committee meeting.