A NEW UNIVERSITY PROSPECT: I BOOK PROVISION FOR The NEW UNIVERSITY Available to Purchase

The dreary months of midwinter are enlivened for university librarians by the arrival on their desks of the annual reports of their colleagues. These reports, from whichever part of the world they come, are now almost without exception variations on two main themes. First the achievements of the session under review accompanied by statistics which show increases on the considerable achievements of the preceding session. Second a plea for greater sums of money to buy more books, to pay more staff to process and exploit them, and often to build new libraries or extensions to house growing collections and larger student numbers.