Aslib Directory of Information Sources in the United Kingdom (12th edition)

In a very affectionate and informed Foreword to this edition, editor Keith W. Reynard takes the opportunity to look back at changes over the last ten years, and to celebrate his directory as an expression of the variety of British life: “the pursuers of great learning and of minority hobbies, the great collections, the charitable works, the statutory bodies and the defenders of individual rights … ”. Where else would you find the Central Council for British Naturism alongside the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers? The Literary & Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne alongside the Liszt Society? Or...