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The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global problems.
Excerpt from Public Libraries, Their Development and Future Organization At this time our main interests and thoughts are directed towards the successful prosecution of the war. The present struggle is to preserve for the nations the right to continue and to improve their social and economic life and well-being, and although the work and progress of libraries, like all other normal activities, have been interrupted and curtailed, we must not permit them to languish and die. It is not necessary therefore to offer excuse for the issue at the moment of this record of the proceedings of the important Library Conference, recently held. The programme of subjects was drawn up with the object of bringing to public notice the more pressing questions which affect the libraries and now demand attention if those institutions are to take their proper place in any considered new plans for national efficiency. The term "Reconstruction" is being freely used and has even brought forth a new department of the Ministry. The necessity for new methods and a wider outlook has impressed itself upon the people, who, suffering from the catastrophe of war, are the more alive to the lessons the war has brought. Our commercial system and aims are to be re-modelled and improved, and this can only be secured by a re-vivifying of technical and industrial training, which must be built up on the foundation of a wider educational basis. Both in the field of general education and in furthering industrial efficiency public libraries can play a great part. Following the school - elementary and secondary - and as an adjunct to the college and the university, libraries alone can meet the needs of every class. "We learn not at school but in life" - our education is but commenced at school. This war was conceived in the schools and the libraries of the German people. It will lie with the other nations to see that their schools and their libraries spread a knowledge and perpetuate a humanity which shall emancipate the world, and for ever crush the lustful ambitions of a race seeking to impose by the sword its savage "Kultur" upon all mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
For over a decade, some academic libraries have been purchasing, rather than borrowing, recently published books requested by their patrons through interlibrary loan. These books had one circulation guaranteed and so appealed to librarians who were concerned about the large percentage of books selected and purchased by librarians but never checked out by their patrons. Early assessments of the projects indicated that patrons selected quality books that in many cases were cross disciplinary and covered emerging areas of scholarly interest. However, now we have a significant database of the ILL purchase records to compare these titles with books selected through normal methods. The projects described in this book present a powerful argument for involving patrons in the book selection process. This book looks at patron-driven acquisitions for printed books at Purdue University, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Illinois, as well as exploring new programs that allow patrons to select e-books or participate in other innovative ways in building the library collections. This book was published as a special issue of Collection Management.
Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Issued also separately.