And Jan came too!

Jan's my wife, and the tale of my devious progress through the profession that the editor asked me to write for your amusement is really in two parts—before and after 1958, the year in which I married Jan, moved back to Hertfordshire and into library management, and acquired a respectable car. Thinking about writing a ‘Talepiece’ I wondered if a ‘Guide to young librarians to the route to the hot seat’ based on my experience would be welcome to the NEW LIBRARY WORLD readers. I doubt if it would help anyone setting out now to try to find a way to the chief officer's bench, for my 24 years in librarianship has seen change at a very rapid pace, and not only in libraries. Local government has changed as much, if not more.