The uses of libraries / edited by Ernest A. Baker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, Ernest A. (Ernest Albert), 1869-1941, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public services (Libraries).

Libraries--Great Britain.

Libraries.

Books and reading.

Academic libraries.

Reference books--Bibliography.

Reference books.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 318 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : University of London press., ltd., 1927.

Contents:

The uses of libraries: introductory, by E. A. Baker.

On the way to use a library, and how to read, by E. A. Baker.

The British Museum, the collections [with a bibliography] by A. Esdaile.

The British Museum for research purposes, by G. F. Barwick.

The university libraries [with list of special collections of value to research students] by L. Newcombe.

Scientific and technical libraries, by A. Gomme.

The Public record office and archives, by H. Jenkinson.

Collections of manuscripts, by R. Flower.

A specialist library for art, by G. H. Palmer.

The library resources of London, by C. R. Sanderson.

Library resources outside London, by W. C. B. Sayers.

Library resources outside Britain, by E. C. Richardson.

A selection of aids and guide-books.

Notes:

"Based on a course of public lectures given at University college, London, during the sessions 1924-26."

OCLC:

4457427