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AT a time when the Trustees of the National Central Library are faced with difficulties beyond the normal, as a result of the loss by enemy action of about half its books and the greater part of its London building, the emergency grant of £2,200 which has recently been made by the Rockefeller Foundation comes as a most welcome gift. Some of the books lost will be irreplaceable, but, fortunately, many of them can be bought as the demand for them arises. The timely aid of the Rockefeller Foundation will be appreciated by many thousands of persons who will benefit by the valuable additional service thus placed at their disposal. The grant is also another illustration of the practical sympathy of the United States with the difficulties which have to be dealt with by those responsible for the work of cultural institutions in the British Isles. By helping the National Central Library, the Rockefeller Foundation is indirectly helping all other libraries which make use of the national service. The Rockefeller Foundation is also continuing to provide money for the upkeep of the Bureau of American Bibliography at the National Central Library.
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Rockefeller Foundation's Gifts to the National Central Library. Nature 148, 137 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148137a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148137a0