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Peer reviewedBudington, William S. – College and Research Libraries, 1976
The independent research libraries have diverse origins and have traveled many paths toward today's complex of library resources in this country. The motives for their founding are many, and their varying sizes belie the uniform significance of their collections to the national resource. (Author)
Descriptors: Library Collections, Library Role, Library Services, Research Libraries
Download full textBudington, William S. – 1974
In the United States there are 15 to 20 independent research libraries designed to provide the corpus of records necessary to intellectual inquiry in one or more disciplines, in dimensions as complete as possible, and with the optimum provision of scholarly apparatus and physical convenience. The rare nature of much of the collections of these…
Descriptors: Archives, Financial Support, Library Collections, Library Cooperation
