Comment

Abstract

I REMEMBER one elderly librarian who insisted on keeping the works of obscure authors like Lermontov on the shelves, even when faced with the plain fact that no dates were ever stamped on the labels of the books in question. Whatever happened, the books stayed, year‐in, year‐out. Here, then, was a librarian of the old school, a guardian of culture, keeping to his post while the inner‐city housewives ran for the Mills and Boons on the returned‐books trolley like piranhas hot on the scent of human flesh. He didn't care: sitting at his desk, making careful notations on the backs of book‐cards, he could ignore the crowd and think about Lermontov.

Citation

Griffin, B., Hills, K., Andrew, G., Drodge, S., Huse, R. and Reid, D. (1981), "Comment", New Library World, Vol. 82 No. 11, pp. 201-209. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb038551