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Volume 37, Issue 4
1 April 1981
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Review Article| April 01 1981

THE BRITISH LIBRARY AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH LIBRARIES Available to Purchase

M.A. SIMKINS
M.A. SIMKINS
Smith Kline and French Research Ltd
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7379
Print ISSN: 0022-0418
© MCB UP Limited
1981
Journal of Documentation (1981) 37 (4): 187–193.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026716

Donald Urquhart has stated again his excellent principle that libraries are for users. The following is the very personal view of one user—from a research‐based industry—of what I have received from the British Library (BL) and what I still want.

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