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THIS useful desk tool could have been much more useful had its scope been limited and the defined objectives kept closely in mind. The accounts of the National Central Library, the copyright libraries and library organisations are admirable and adequate, though the references to the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux itself and to the British Society for International Bibliography are already out of date. The sections covering the university libraries and the public libraries of Britain are also adequate although some expansion would have been welcome, particularly as Colonel Newcome‘s book and the "Yearbook of Learned Societies" are out of print. It is the ‘select' list of special libraries that is most open to criticism. No attempt is made to indicate the basis of selection, but while it may be pardonable to omit St. Deiniol‘s Gladstone Memorial Library at Hawarden, it is difficult to know what to make of a list which omits, for example, the John Ryland‘s Library in Manchester or the libraries of the Manchester and of the Newcastle-on-Tyne Literary and Philosophical
British Sources of Reference and Information
A Guide to Societies, Works of Reference and Libraries. Compiled under the direction of a Committee of ASLIB and edited by Theodore Besterman. (Published for the British Council.) Pp. vii+56. (London: Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux, 1947.) 6s.; to ASLIB members, 5s.
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BRIGHTMAN, R. British Sources of Reference and Information. Nature 161, 789 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161789b0
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