We may not want to imagine that the kind of cooperation we talk about here will end in a shootout, but we can learn from their tenacity. I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away form the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature. 1970 Study by US office of Education re. NERL offers a forum in which members share information about management and budgeting for electronic resources. NERL Designated Representatives establish policies and procedures, as well as select and contract for electronic sources.
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