A Librarian’s Odyssey: Episodes of Autobiography

“However, in 1993 Stuart James … sent me some books for noticing in Library Review and this has led to six years of great activity in reviewing for him. Stuart is also editor of Reference Reviews and he has sent me many books to cover for that publication. At the time of writing I have now reviewed 130 books for Reference Reviews …”

While we would not normally review a librarian’s autobiography in Reference Reviews (a fuller account will appear in Library Review), an exception does seem to be called for in the case of one of our regular...