Supsliska newsletters

At the 1993 reunion (our 25th) several members of staff were present. One of them dredged up from the archives a set of the newsletter that was produced in the summer of 1968. They are presented with a feeling of some embarrassment - typical student rubbish and taken from poor photocopies - but apart from their nostalgia value they do have some historical interest. In this digital age who remembers Cutter's Expansive Classification, Ranganathan and the other allusions to the technical developments of half a century ago?

One disappointment was that no copy was found of our programme during the study visit to London but it is recalled by Joan Friedman: " ... seeing the CLW (College of Librarianship Wales) programme on the notice board, with its red dragon and instructions for briefing and debriefing, [Supsliska] put up as a riposte, our (imaginary) schedule, which included visits on successive days to the Library of Congress, the Lenin Library and the Marquis de Sade Library in Paris. This was in the golden age when CLW students visited libraries abroad as well as in the UK. Back at Claremont Crescent, when the Supsliska programme appeared on our notice board, our cleaner, who took a great interest in the students, was impressed; she had no idea, she said, that they had been abroad during the Field Week."

The following, with its title changing issue by issue, would have taxed Joan Friedmans's skills as a cataloguer: