Changing patterns of scholarship and the future of research libraries
Subtitle: a symposium in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the University of Pennsylvania Library.
By: [Rudolf Hirsch, editor]
Contributors: Hirsch, Rudolf, 1906-,
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1951
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
Subjects: Libraries; Learning and scholarship; United States -- Libraries
Table of contents: title: 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. Brinton.  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.M. Whitte.-  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.