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Broken Pieces: A Library Life, 1941–1978. By Michael Gorman. Pp. 232, ill. Chicago: American Library Association. 2011

Welsh, A; (2012) Broken Pieces: A Library Life, 1941–1978. By Michael Gorman. Pp. 232, ill. Chicago: American Library Association. 2011. [Review]. Library and Information History , 28 (2) 154 -155. 10.1179/1758348912Z.00000000004. Green open access

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Abstract

One question implicit in all autobiographies is ‘How personal is too personal?” and we may wonder this repeatedly as we read Michael Gorman’s account of his wartime childhood, London schooling and teenage exploration of Paris. Of course, the historical meat of this book is the first-person account of library education in the 1960s; the glimpse into daily life at the British National Bibliography offices under A.J. Wells; Gorman’s own description of how he analysed the existing cataloguing codes and practices of the day and (though modestly prevents his stating it so bluntly himself) saved the second edition of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2) from the dangers faced by all committee-written documents – confusing language, poor internal cross-references and lack of concrete examples.

Type: Article
Title: Broken Pieces: A Library Life, 1941–1978. By Michael Gorman. Pp. 232, ill. Chicago: American Library Association. 2011
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1179/1758348912Z.00000000004
Publisher version: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.1179/175...
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1413448
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