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The Library World Volume 56 Issue 3

The Library World Volume 56 Issue 3 HASTINGS is now a memory of a conference in which the members of the L.A. heard papers of singular merit and one or two addresses of marked distinction. If we were to select the Presidential Address of Mr. C. B. Oldman, the beautiful Annual Lecture by Mr. Bowen Thomas and the quite remarkable performance in English of Mr. Bengt Hjelmqvist, on the organization of his native Swedish libraries, as the highlights of the general sessions, and Nigel Balchin's model afterdinner speech as another, we are not the less aware of the excellence of nearly all the papers submitted at every session indeed, there was not really a bad paper throughout, although some were much too long. They averaged fortyfive minutes. Possibly the Conference Committee set this length if so, we suggest respectfully that however long the written paper may be the time should be reduced by at least one third for which the audience is required to listen. One felt in several cases that even the authors of the papers grew weary, or were under a sense of hurry, before they reached the end. This was occasionally caused by extempore insertions, a most difficult performance in which few succeed. Fortunate is the reader who addresses a morning session he escapes the afternoon somnolence. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Library World Emerald Publishing

The Library World Volume 56 Issue 3

New Library World , Volume 56 (3): 20 – Sep 1, 1954
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HASTINGS is now a memory of a conference in which the members of the L.A. heard papers of singular merit and one or two addresses of marked distinction. If we were to select the Presidential Address of Mr. C. B. Oldman, the beautiful Annual Lecture by Mr. Bowen Thomas and the quite remarkable performance in English of Mr. Bengt Hjelmqvist, on the organization of his native Swedish libraries, as the highlights of the general sessions, and Nigel Balchin's model afterdinner speech as another, we are not the less aware of the excellence of nearly all the papers submitted at every session indeed, there was not really a bad paper throughout, although some were much too long. They averaged fortyfive minutes. Possibly the Conference Committee set this length if so, we suggest respectfully that however long the written paper may be the time should be reduced by at least one third for which the audience is required to listen. One felt in several cases that even the authors of the papers grew weary, or were under a sense of hurry, before they reached the end. This was occasionally caused by extempore insertions, a most difficult performance in which few succeed. Fortunate is the reader who addresses a morning session he escapes the afternoon somnolence.

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New Library World – Emerald Publishing

Published: Sep 1, 1954

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