Consider the means available to us for enjoying a piece of music, such as this, which I am about to play, Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave —a cassette recording made on a machine costing £10; an EMI studio tape played through equipment costing £3,500, or better, through £8,000 worth of stereo or...

There can be few libraries where the need for reorganization has not at some time been felt, and it is therefore a subject of very wide interest. The previous paper dealt with the planning of special library buildings, with their equipment, and administration—the present paper will deal with...

Almostfrom the start the European Productivity Agency recognized the importance to productivity of a free flow of information and new ideas. As proof of this one has only to note its activities in this field: EPA Digests, the Question and Answer Service, provision of Technical Information...

When a scientist quotes, it is a generally accepted convention that his quotations must be almost mathematically apt. They must cover the point, the whole point and nothing but the point. Humanists are in a happier position—something reasonably near to the spirit of the idea to be conveyed is...

Love of the past is one of the key features of the British character. Tourists who flock to our shores see it in our carefully‐preserved archaeological sites, ancient monuments, churches, castles, palaces and timbered buildings. During their visit they may even learn from the guides that...

There is a story of the tourist who, after a special package tour intended to show the British way of life, complained that he had not been shown the Church of England! I meet much the same situation when people ask me to show them the Library of the Polytechnic of Central London for it has...