Changing patterns of scholarship and the future of research libraries.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
Subjects: Libraries -- United States; Library science -- Congresses; Learning and scholarship
Notes: "A symposium in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the University of Pennsylvania Library."
Table of contents: title: Opening remarks, by G. W. Pepper and C. W. David.; title: Patterns of research and changing library needs: From the viewpoint of the humanities and social sciences, by C. Branton. From the viewpoint of the natural sciences, by C. Zirkle.; title: The ever expanding demand for materials and the threatened decline of support: how shall the gap be filled? By K. D. Metcalf.; title: The research library in contemporary society, a problem of the proper recognition of services rendered, by C. W. White.; title: The balance of conflicting interests in the building of collections: comprehensiveness versus selectivity, by V. W. Clapp and R. E. Ellsworth.; title: Libraries and scholarship: should libraries be passive instruments of, or active participants in, research? By H. M. Lydenberg.; title: What type research librarian? By L. R. Wilson.