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THE ABANDONED SWITCHBOARD LIBRARYINFORMATION JOURNALS

GRESHAM, JOAN

1979 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012688

More than archivists, museum curators or other informationrelated professions, librarians have always had before them in print the artefacts of communication systems designed by other men. They may always have tended to regard these as so many items to be stored, sorted and accounted for but external communication models have arguably not been without influence on the library profession. With the development of professionalism among librarians, at the point when individuals no longer worked in ignorance and disregard of what others elsewhere were doing, the creation of purposemade systems became a necessity.
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MAKING ROOM FOR BOOKS

CANE, V.R.

1979 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012689

For every library, at some time, the question of removing some older books in order to make room for new ones must arise. In a personal library the owner can scrutinize each book and decide how inconvenient it would be to have it stored in a box somewhere rather than available on the shelves. A large library with many users requires some strategy for identifying the books to be scrutinized and perhaps stored only two possible criteria can really be used, date of publication and use. In the case of periodicals, relegation by date is necessary if runs are to be kept in sequence. We discuss in this paper, therefore, only the problem of relegation of monographs, and restrict ourselves to relegation by use.
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THE DISTANT DECADE CAITHNESS COUNTY, 19251935

HAY, DANIEL

1979 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012690

Basically I doubt whether the Wick Public Library, which I first knew as a child, and later as an assistant, has altered much externally, unless it has been extended in some way at the back. It was a handsome building, standing on a road junction one wing containing the newsroom with museum above lay along Sinclair Terrace, the other at right angles to it lay down Cliff Road which led to Bridge Street. This wing had a large room on the ground floor originally designed as an amusements room, but as I remember it used as a stock room for the Caithness County Library when it was formed. Above it was a room planned as a ladies' magazine room, but used in the 1930s as a work room.
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BEYOND ALTHUSSER

SHARPLES, STEPHEN

1979 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012691

The title of Barry Hindess' book suggests yet another text which claims to set out the most useful methods for social science. It is nothing of the kind. Instead it is a brilliantly iconoclastic work which systematically sets about dismantling a great deal of sociology's claim to produce knowledge. For good measure Hindess throws in also major assaults on philosophers of science and social science such as Schutz, Husserl, Popper and Winch.
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