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AFTER ATKINSON
F.W. RATCLIFFEIt is difficult to recall ten years later the depth of feeling roused among university librarians in Britain by the report of a University Grants Committee Working Party on…
RELEVANCE AND REALITY IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
IAN WINKWORTH, BRIAN ENRIGHTThe fifteen years before Atkinson represented for many British university librarians a golden age, as the number and size of universities expanded, young men received promotion…
AMPUTATION: BY CONSENT?: SCOTTISH UNIVERSITY LIBRARY FINANCES SINCE ATKINSON
KENNETH J. CAMERON, MICHAEL ROBERTSRecession, inflation, cuts — these and related keywords have dominated the international literature of librarianship in recent years. The academic library community has been…
BEYOND THE SPACE AGE: SCOTTISH NON‐UNIVERSITY TERTIARY EDUCATION LIBRARIES
JOHN BATEATKINSON was mainly about space. However, certain very important general principles emerge in the report, firstly that the allocation of limited resources among universities…
BUT HOW FAST DID TOPSY GROW?
GRAHAM JONESThe establishment of the University Grants Committee in the Britain of 1919 called for fundamental thinking as to the character and priorities of academic communities and the…