Broken Pieces: A Library Life, 1941-1978

Account of the early life and career of Gorman, a British-born librarian who worked in England and the United States and was later president of the American Library Association (2005-2006). 

Contents: 

• Et in arcadia ego, 1941-1945
• London, 1946-1947
• On the move, 1948-1952
• Finchley Catholic Grammar School, 1952-1957
• Hampstead Public Library, 1957-1960
• Paris and afterwards, 1960-1962
• Marriage, Ealing Public Library, and library school, 1962-1966
• BNB, children, cataloguing, and a crisis, 1966-1969
• BNB, the British Library, 1970-1974
• Illinois, 1974-1975
• Back to England, the University of Illinois Library, 1975-1978
• The Anglo-American cataloguing rules, 1968-1978