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Turner, Judith Axler – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
Soviet intelligence agents have been collecting scientific and technical documents in research libraries to identify emerging technology before its components become classified or restricted. Librarians are also recruited as spies. However, asking librarians to identify suspicious library users would violate ethics and intellectual freedom. (MSE)
Descriptors: Ethics, Higher Education, Information Seeking, Information Sources
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1985
Data on the holdings of university and other research libraries include library ranking, volumes held and added, current serials holdings, and spending for materials and salaries. (MSE)
Descriptors: Expenditures, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Librarians
