Shrieking Silence: A Library Landscape

Author:   David Gerard
Publisher:   Scarecrow Press
ISBN:  

9780810820692


Pages:   297
Publication Date:   01 May 1988
Format:   Hardback
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'Gerard's reminiscences offer both remarkable frankness and a sense of what it actually felt like to be a public librarian in Britain.'-LISCA

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Author:   David Gerard
Publisher:   Scarecrow Press
Imprint:   Scarecrow Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780810820692


ISBN 10:   0810820692
Pages:   297
Publication Date:   01 May 1988
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

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So sharp is Gerard's eye, such Gerard's thrusts, that I wanted him to write more. Any librarian who reads him must go away with his ears buzzing and his brain in top gear.--Stanley Middleton


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David Gerard is retired and has been Deputy City Librarian of Exeter, City Librarian of Nottingham, and Senior Lecturer, College of Librarianship, Wales. He is a graduate of the University of London and of the University of Durham. His publications include Libraries and the Arts (Bingley, 1970); Libraries and Leisure (Diploma Press, 1975); Libraries in Society (Bingley, 1978); The Coming of the Book (NLB, 1976); and translations of Lucien Febvre and H.J. Martin's L'apparition du livre and of Andre Masson's Le catalogue figuratif.

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