• Cheap Literature A. J. McConnell, David Ida al Jones
Mosley Nicolas Walter Farewell to the Fifties Michael Masson The Monster of Piccadilly Circus W. P. King C. H. Rolph and the BBC M. G. Farquharson The British Students' Orchestra Sir Thomas Armstrong Design for Obsolescence J. C. Pritchard Ireland Fryink MacDermot No, No, Ninetlel Mrs. Leo Kersley Relieving Distress in Algeria Mark Bonham Carter mu! others CHEAP LITERATURE
SIR,—No book acquired by the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, under the Copyright Act is ever sold.
The workings of the Act as it applies to us were examined in great detail by the Copyright Committee. Its conclusions will be found to dispose of the charges now made, rather unhelpfully, by Sir Alan Herbert at a moment when we are working on the design of an extension to our Library, which will enable us to expand its services. Every book acquired under the Copyright Act is retained and is made available to readers. Not infrequently the copy here is the only one obtainable in Ireland. Every endeavour is made to catalogue or index all books received by purchase, gift, or under the relevant Copyright Acts, and I have observed with pleasure that Sir Alan's own works occupy quite a large amount of space in our catalogue.
As for the test case which he contemplates, he may not have observed that the matter has been tested already. The legal obligations of deposit are recipro- cal, and were reinforced just over a year ago by a prosecution in the courts here of an Irish publisher who failed to send copies of one of his publications, in accordance with the provisions of the Irish Act, to the deposit libraries in the United Kingdom.—Yours faithfully, A. J. MCCONNELL Provost Provost's House, Trinity College, Dublin
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