Journal of Documentation: Volume 4 Issue 1

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ON BOOKS

S.I. Vavilov

I have no statistics before me of the growth in output of books, magazines, and newspapers throughout the world, but I will hardly be mistaken if I say that it is very great. And…

BUSINESS RECORDS AS A SOURCE OF ECONOMIC HISTORY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR SELECTIVE PRESERVATION IN LIBRARIES

W.H. Chaloner

During the last thirty years there has been an increased use of business records as a source for the writing of economic history. Before 1920 a great deal of our knowledge of…

THE CATALOGUES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM: I. PRINTED BOOKS

F.C. Francis

The foundation collection of the printed books now forming the Library of the British Museum was that of Sir Hans Sloane. This comprised about 40,000 volumes. To it was added in…

THE USE OF MICROFILM FOR COMPLETING SETS

LEONARD JOLLEY

There has been plenty of discussion of the technical problems of microfilming, and the potential importance of microfilms to the librarian is generally accepted, but little seems…

Cover of Journal of Documentation

ISSN:

0022-0418

Online date, start – end:

1945

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof David Bawden