Changing Patterns of Scholarship and the Future of Research Libraries: A Symposium in Celebration of the 2th Anniversary of the Establishment of the University of Pennsylvania Library

Rudolf Hirsch

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1951

Changing Patterns of Scholarship and the Future of Research Libraries

A Symposium in Celebration of the 2th Anniversary of the Establishment of the University of Pennsylvania Library

Rudolf Hirsch

In the series Anniversary Collection

https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512816921

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
The Library
Opening Remarks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Patterns of Research and Changing Library Needs William Rex Crawford, Crane Brinton and Conway Zirkle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
The Ever Expanding Demand for Materials and the Threatened Decline of Support: How Shall the Gap be Filled? Keyes D. Metcalf and William Rex Crawford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
The Research Library in Contemporary Society: A Problem of the Proper Recognition of Services Rendered Carl M. White and William Rex Crawford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
The Intellectual Process
The Balance of Conflicting Interests in Building Collections: Comprehensiveness Versus Selectivity Carroll C. Moreland, Verner W. Clapp and Ralph E. Ellsworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Libraries and Scholarship: Should Libraries Be Passive Instruments of, or Active Participants in, Research? Harry M. Lydenberg and Carroll C. Moreland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
What Type Research Librarian? Louis Round Wilson and Carroll C. Moreland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Copyright year: 1951
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 144
Keywords: Library Science and Publishing; Academic Life

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Published: January 9, 2018
ISBN: 9781512816921