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AFTER this War, even more than after the War of 1914–18, learned and scientific libraries in Great Britain will be faced with the problem of attempting to fill gaps in their sets of periodicals caused not only by the inability to obtain journals from enemy and enemy-occupied countries during the war-period, but also by losses at sea and by destruction in air-raids. As stocks in European countries may also have been destroyed in air-raids, there is likely to be a shortage in many cases, and in order to prevent an unseemly scramble on the part of individual libraries to get volumes of which there may be an insufficient number of copies to go round, it is highly desirable that a representative and impartial body should decide, on a national scale, to which libraries the available copies should be allotted.
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BARNARD, C. Library Stocks of Periodicals. Nature 152, 106 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152106a0
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