The great British high street is on life support. Online retail has had a detrimental effect for years, turning some high ...

Evie Harman, a BA student at St Martin’s Arts College who works part-time for the Girls’ Friendly Society, says she has always found libraries to be a free, welcoming space where she could escape the ...

The New Britain Public Library, the New Britain Recreation and Community Services Department and the American Job Center are ...

The earliest traditions agree that the first inhabitants of Britain were of the tall persuasion. Some say they were descendants of Noah’s son Ham, and came from Africa about 4000 years ago. Other ...

“The Fabian Society consists of Socialists,” as the first line of the Basis on the flyleaf of many a Fabian Tract declares. A Society which bears the heritage of Benthamite radicalism, it rose with ...

THE U.S. Office of War Information announces the formal opening of the American Library, which has been operating for several months as a special reference library at the American Embassy, 1 Grosvenor ...

ABSTRACT: [Purpose/Significance]: To provide a reference for the development of open data theory and practice by targeting a review of China’s open data policy-related research. [Method/Process]: ...

NEW BRITAIN — Walk into the New Britain Public Library (NBPL) on High Street these days and you will notice physical changes to the main floor. The circulation and reference desks have been merged ...

THE detailed report on “The Public Library System of Great Britain” prepared by Mr. L. R. McColvin for the Library Association, which was published in September 1942 (see NATURE, March 20, 1943, p.

Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party, will be prime minister, replacing Rishi Sunak. This event has now ended. For the latest U.K. election coverage, please click here. Congratulations are ...

My life divides, evenly enough, into three political eras. I was born in 1980, a year after Margaret Thatcher entered Downing Street with the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi on her lips: “Where there ...

According to the annual report of CIPFA – Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, there is a 3% rise in library spending in Great Britain. In the research, it has been found that the ...