Libraries and Information Services in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland 2003 (29th edition)

Reviewing this title has become almost an annual ritual for Reference Reviews. Evidence of this is to be found on both the front and back covers of the Libraries and Information Services in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland 2003, where laudatory quotations from past issues of this journal are prominently featured. Stuart James undertook the last inspection (RR 2002/228), rightly concluding “(f)or quick reference location and contact information with library and information services in the UK and Ireland this title is unchallenged”.

This edition, the 29th to be published since the original volume was...