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Robert Duncan Macleod 18851973

Macleod, R.D.

1973 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012594

R. D. MACLEOD'S career can be summarized briefly. Born in Greenock, he joined the staff of the public library there in 1902. He moved to Glasgow and was a district librarian in Hutchesontown and Anderston before his appointment in 1915 as librarian to the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, with responsibility for their pioneer North of Scotland scheme. In 1921 he joined Messrs W. & R. Holmes, booksellers in Glasgow, as consulting librarian, and he retired from the firm as a director in December 1963. One of the first to bring the professional skill of the librarian into the world of bookselling, to the end he considered himself a librarian.
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My Biographer, if I ever have one

Day, A.E.

1973 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012595

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON would have delighted in the deep irony of his own idle words, penned in a letter to William Archer in October 1887. His early death in Samoa, itself a symbolic reflection of an incredibly romantic life, short but full of incident and perfectly constructed for journalistic highlighting, inspired a spate of fulsomely admiring biographical studies which at one time threatened to obscure his true talent. Essay upon essay, book after book, some merely appreciative, some approaching adulation, poured from the presses until literary criticism proper was engulfed in a myth of quite extraordinary dimensions.
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Acquisitions and Collections

Ready, William

1973 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012596

THERE IS TREASON ABROAD in the world of learning le trahison des clercs is rising among us today and is more virulent than was the original conspiracy. The current conspiracy is against collections. We are surrounded now by those who are wedded to the University in an unholy sacrament whereby the bride, the shrine of learning, the Library, is being degraded to becoming a mere machine of information that will spew out facts at the touch of a button, facts which are replacing knowledge. There are buildings within our present experience that are called Libraries, wherein books are of minor importance. There are scholars who have told spacehungry and buildingconscious administrators that electronics and new means of communication have replaced the book as a major matter of the Library. Information has set in.
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Reading in Retirement

Allen, Trevor

1973 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012597

WHEN A FRIEND OF MINE retired he had been like most businessmen, a reader of the lighter kind of bookthrillers, 'tecs, westernsfor evenings and weekends. Now he had most of the day for it, too, and I could see he was becoming surfeited with it.
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