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THE NATIONAL INFORMATION RESOURCE
F.W. RATCLIFFEIn Britain, university libraries encountered a decline in funding later than in the US, but had never enjoyed support sufficient to permit ambitious acquisitions schemes designed…
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BOOK BORROWING AND UNEMPLOYMENT
DAVID FRYER, ROY PAYNEIn the 1930s, several groups researching aspects of poverty in general and unemployment in particular reported findings concerning reading behaviour. The most ambitious of these…
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PURCHASING: THE LIBRARIAN AS LONER
GEORGE McMURDOAppropriately, perhaps, the literature of library acquisitions is largely devoted to topics such as records management, vendor evaluation, selection sources, fugitive materials…
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