Changing patterns of scholarship and the future of research libraries.

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Corporate Author: University of Pennsylvania. Library
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1968, c1951]
Series:Essay index reprint series
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Table of Contents:
  • Opening remarks, by G. W. Pepper and C. W. David
  • Patterns of research and changing library needs: From the viewpoint of the humanities and social sciences, by C. Branton. From the viewpoint of the natural sciences, by C. Zirkle
  • The ever expanding demand for materials and the threatened decline of support: how shall the gap be filled? By K. D. Metcalf
  • The research library in contemporary society, a problem of the proper recognition of services rendered, by C. W. White
  • The balance of conflicting interests in the building of collections: comprehensiveness versus selectivity, by V. W. Clapp and R. E. Ellsworth
  • Libraries and scholarship: should libraries be passive instruments of, or active participants in, research? By H. M. Lydenberg
  • What type research librarian? By L. R. Wilson.