New Zealand author Margaret Mahy has made a career of tickling funny bones, teasing the imagination, and sending shivers up spines of young readers. She is, according to Betty Gilderdale, writing in St. James Guide to Children's Writers, "one of the most...

University libraries in Western Australia plan to increase cost savings and efficiencies by restructuring their cataloging procedures. Changes included community, commercial and cooperative methods such as outsourcing operations. While outsourcing may incur costs needed to correct some records in-house, research indicates that significant overall...

Of the various German scholars who were able to explore the riches of Istanbul's Islamic manuscript collections in the early decades of this century, Hellmut Ritter was undoubtedly the most productive. More than a score of articles published between 1928 and 1953 were...