Shrieking Silence : A Library Landscape

'Gerard's reminiscences offer both remarkable frankness and a sense of what it actually felt like to be a public librarian in Britain.'—LISCA

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.