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London Branch Report for 1928

London Branch Report for 1928

The Library World Volume 30 Issue 8

WE hope that all London librarians will give full consideration to the project of the London Branch of the Library Association to provide a union catalogue of the non‐fiction Stocks of Metropolitan libraries. They are to be asked if they will co‐operate in the scheme by providing cards of their Stock of uniform size, or by making some contribution (a more difficult matter this) to the cost of the catlogue. Such a catalogue kept at the Central Library for Students, combined with the telephone and general goodwill, would bring about a co‐ordination of libraties on a voluntary basis with results in good as yet scarcely realized. The idea is not novel; it was rejected a score of years ago as visionary or impractable. It may have been visionary then; it is not so now. Modern librarians simply must get together if they wish to avoid being made to do so.

The Library World Volume 30 Issue 7

We learn with interest and pleasure that, by the unanimous vote of the Council, the position of Executive Officer to the Library Association has been given to Mr. Guy Keeling, B.A. We understand that over one hundred applicants were considered for the post, and that it was felt that by education and experience Mr. Keeling was eminently qualified for the work which lies ahead of the Association. Mr. Keeling is a Cambridge man, Still on the sunny side of forty, whose pleasing personality is known to many librarians who have met him at conferences of “Aslib” or at meetings of the London and Home Counties Branch. As for his work as secretary of Aslib, it has proved him to be a man of most efficient organizing capacity. We offer him a welcome to the larger sphere of librarianship and we feel sure that all our readers will do the same, and, what is better, will support him in all his efforts in it.

The Library World Volume 28 Issue 8

AT the last meeting of the London Branch of the Library Association Mr. James D. Stewart dealt in a suggestive manner with the problems of co‐operation as they affect the metropolitan area. There is some hope that the Council of the Branch may now give definite attention to the one thing in modern library administration that really calls for it. The problem is by no means limited to London, but London ought to be able to show the way. For twenty‐five years at least the subject of co‐operation has been discussed, but rather fitfully, and never with sufficient force to convince librarians generally. To take one instance only: there always has been a fear that if we have a co‐operative catalogue some library assistant somewhere or other will find his occupation gone. This is typical of the bogeys that have hindered progress. The London area can promote co‐operation on lines which have all the advantages, and none of the disadvantages, of central control. Central control stifles almost every form of local initiative, especially such control as we are wont to get in this country.

The Library World Volume 28 Issue 4

THERE was an air of expectancy about the audience which assembled at Draper's Hall on October 27th to hear the address with which the President of the Board of Education inaugurated the session of the London Branch of the Library Association. Quite unjustifiably, we fear, because it rested upon the expectation, or hope, that the noble and right honourable gentleman would deliver his views of library policy in anticipation of the report of the Trevelyan Committee. Lord Eustace Percy's speech was charming, was stimulating, and was an excellent statement of certain elementary ideals, which, though familiar to us all, cannot be emphasised too often. It was, indeed, exactly the type of speech which a cultured and skilful statesman must make (if he have the ability) to such an audience as ours, which would dearly have liked to hear him say something nearer to what was in their own minds. It said nothing whatever about the Committee, or even referred to its existence. Of course, no minister would or could anticipate the deliberations of any body which had not yet finished its work.

BYZANTINE CIVILISATION1

HistoryVolume 10, Issue 40 p. 289-299 BYZANTINE CIVILISATION1 NORMAN H. BAYNES., NORMAN H. BAYNES.Search for more papers by this author NORMAN H. BAYNES., NORMAN H. BAYNES.Search for more papers by this author First published: January 1925 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-229X.1925.tb02089.xCitations: 1 1 An abbreviation of a paper read at a meeting of the London Branch of the Association in February 1925. See further the writer's little book, The Byzantine Empire (Home University Library), to be published by Williams and Korgate in 1926. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume10, Issue40January 1925Pages 289-299 RelatedInformation

Mathematics of Reality and Metamathematics: Mathematical Association (London Branch). Presidential Valedictory Address

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The Library World Volume 26 Issue 5

We lay the flattering unction to our soul that our recent remark with regard to the possibilities of awakening public interest in the public library movement by means of wireless broadcasting has not fallen entirely upon deaf ears. It has just been arranged that the Honorary Secretary of the London and Home Counties Branch of the Library Association is to broadcast a lecture on Public Libraries at a date to be announced later. This will mark an important epoch in our march forward and we await the result with considerable interest.

The Library World Volume 26 Issue 4

THE inaugural meeting of the London and Home Counties Branch of the Library Association shows great promise for the future. The fact that between 70 and 80 members and friends attended this meeting only goes to prove that energy and stimulus only were needed to make the monthly meetings of the parent body successful ventures.

Graduates' Section: London Branch

Graduates' Section: London Branch

The Library World Volume 25 Issue 8

A LONDON and Home Counties Branch of the Library Association reached the stage of initiation at the meeting held at the Central Library for Students on March 28th. A committee was formed and officers were elected, and application is to be made to the Library Association Council for a certificate creating the Branch. The movement has our sympathy, and it may do something to revive interest in library matters, which notoriously flags, amongst London librarians. We do not think the committee quite representative, but it will do for a start.

Alice through the (Convex) Looking Glass

Alice through the (Convex) Looking Glass

Graduates' Section. London Branch

Graduates' Section. London Branch

The Work of a Local Branch

We meet to-day to inaugurate a London Branch of the Mathematical Association. This is a step in a process of evolution.The Mathematical Association is a continuation of the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching, commonly known as the A.I.G.T., founded in 1870.I did not join the Association till 1883, but some of its earliest reports are in my possession; to thrse I shall referIt owed its existence to a profound wide-spread dissatisfaction with the lack of geometrical knowledge, and still more the absence of geometrical power, displayed by students who had passcd through the ordinary school course of Euclid.

The London Branch

The London Branch

Erratum

Erratum

Summer Meeting of the London Branch–Flatland

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The Teaching of Geometry and Trigonometry

The following paper was read at the meeting of the London Branch, which took place on the 8th of March last at the London Day Training College. It contains in outline the substance of the first few chapters of A School Course in Geometry, to be published shortly by Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co. Many details, necessarily omitted in a short preliminary paper, will be found fully treated in the forthcoming volume.

Presidential Address to the London Branch of the Mathematical Association

Presidential Address to the London Branch of the Mathematical Association

The Institution of Automobile Engineers.; Graduates' Section.; London Branch

The Institution of Automobile Engineers.; Graduates' Section.; London Branch