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Volume 4, Issue 3
1 March 1952
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Review Article| March 01 1952

THE WORKING OF A PUBLIC SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL LIBRARY

J. ROLAND SMITH
J. ROLAND SMITH
Librarian, Commercial and Science & Technology Libraries, Sheffield Sheffield, 27th March, 1952
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-3748
Print ISSN: 0001-253X
© MCB UP Limited
1952
Aslib Proceedings (1952) 4 (3): 139–146.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049440

This paper bears so comprehensive a title that, if I were to do it anything like justice, there would be no time for anything else this morning. However, within the limits of the time allowed me, I hope to say something about a public scientific and technical library I know quite well—that of Sheffield—which may explain why its functions differ from those of special libraries, and to some extent how they are different. First of all, a word on our background.

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