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To know a library : essays and annual reports, 1970-1976
Title:
To know a library : essays and annual reports, 1970-1976
Author:
Gore, Daniel, 1930-1994.
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1978.
Physical Description:
379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
General Note:
Includes index.
Language:
English
Contents:
In hot pursuit of FASTCAT -- Books versus janitors, or where do you want to spend library funds in the twenty-first century? -- Adopting an approval plan for a college library : the Macalester College experience -- Sawing off the horns of a dilemma, or how to cut subscription lists and expand access to journal literature -- The destruction of the book by oversewn binding and how to prevent it -- Let them eat cake while reading catalog cards : an essay on the availability problem -- The view from the Tower of Babel -- Things your boss never told you about library management -- Going out of bibliographical control : a theory of library organization based on human principles -- The mischief in measurement : a caveat on the hazards of using faulty instruments to measure library performance -- Annual report of the library 1970/71 -- Annual report of the library 1971/72 -- Annual report of the library 1972/73 -- Annual report of the library 1973/74 -- Annual report of the library 1974/75 -- Annual report of the library 1975/76.

Annual report of the library 1973/74 -- Annual report of the library 1974/75 -- Annual report of the library 1975/76.
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ISBN:
9780837198811
Format :
Book