Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. The Library
4. Opening Remarks 3
5. Patterns of Research and Changing Library Needs 7
6. The Ever Expanding Demand for Materials and the Threatened Decline of Support: How Shall the Gap be Filled? 27
7. The Research Library in Contemporary Society: A Problem of the Proper Recognition of Services Rendered 43
8. The Intellectual Process
9. The Balance of Conflicting Interests in Building Collections: Comprehensiveness Versus Selectivity 65
10. Libraries and Scholarship: Should Libraries Be Passive Instruments of, or Active Participants in, Research? 90
11. What Type Research Librarian? 112