Broken pieces [[electronic resource] ] : a library life, 1941-1978 / / Michael Gorman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789412903321
• Autore: Gorman Michael <1941->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : American Library Association, 2011
• ISBN: 0-8389-9303-6; 1-283-12761-X; 9786613127617; 0-8389-9302-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 020.92; B
• Soggetti: Librarians - United States; Librarians - England
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Et in arcadia ego, 1941-1945 -- London, 1946-1947 -- On the move, 1948-1952 -- Finchley Catholic Grammar School, 1952-1957 -- Hampstead Public Library, 1957-1960 -- Paris and afterwards, 1960-1962 -- Marriage, Ealing Public Library, and library school, 1962-1966 -- BNB, children, cataloguing, and a crisis, 1966-1969 -- BNB, the British Library, 1970-1974 -- Illinois, 1974-1975 -- Back to England, the University of Illinois Library, 1975-1978 -- The Anglo-American cataloguing rules, 1968-1978.
• Sommario/riassunto: From his earliest reading memories in wartime Britain through five decades of librarianship, eminent librarian and former ALA President Michael Gorman offers insights from his extraordinary career in this new memoir.