CYRILLIC MONOGRAPHS AT THE LENDING DIVISION

When the National Lending Library for Science and Technology was set up in 1960 one of its key concerns was with the formation of a comprehensive stock of Russian scientific periodicals, and, to complement this, a comprehensive stock of Russian scientific and technical monographs. The increased interest of Western scientists in Russian science and technology, brought about particularly by the successful Russian space programme, assured a demand for this material.