SWIFT,+James

SWIFT, James (1906-1967) Bolton 1922; Worcester 1928 (DL 1936); CL Loughborough 1937; 1CL Swindon 1943; CL Holborn 1946-1965 His drive and energy were particularly manifested at HOLBORN which was remarkable among London public libraries in 1946 in not having by then adopted the open access system which J D Brown had introduced at CLERKENWELL 50 years earlier and which had been universally accepted. The opening of HOLBORN's new central library in 1960, //inter alia//, brought the service into the forefront of modern public librarianship.