Allan Horton -- Friend and colleague.

Presents the author's experiences with librarian Allan Horton. Appointment of Horton as university librarian at the University of New South Wales in 1965; Appointment of the author as university librarian at the University of Queensland; Rivalry between Gordon Richardson, librarian at the Public Library of New South Wales, and Harold White who had the title of national librarian and control of the upstart new institution of that name.