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Individual departmental libraries vs consolidated science libraries

MAY 01, 1961

DOI: 10.1063/1.3057550

D. A. Wells

The merits of individual departmental science libraries versus one large unified library have been considered by administrators throughout the country for some time. It seems that there is currently a movement afoot at a number of colleges and universities for the consolidation of physics, chemistry, biology, and other science libraries into one large unit housed in a separate building.

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D. A. Wells. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Volume 14, Number 5

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