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Information : a sceptical account / Frank Webster -- Professional education in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States in the 20th century / Patricia Layzell Ward -- Acquisitions / Lisa German, Karen Schmidt -- The child in the electronic age : new developments in resources and services provided to children by public libraries / Judith Elkin, Glen Mynott -- The International Association of Music Libraries (IAML) : past, present, and future / John Wagstaff -- The impact of American librarianship on libraries of communist and postcommunist Russia / Irina Klim -- Publishing in 2000 / Karen Hunter -- Planning academic library buildings for a new age / Andrew McDonald -- Museums of the book / Nicholas Pickwoad.

Critically acclaimed since its inception, Advances in librarianship continues to be the essential reference source for developments in the field of libraries and library science. Articles published in the series have won national prizes, such as the Blackwell North America Scholarship Award for the outstanding 1994 monograph, article, or original paper in the field of acquisitions, collection, development, and related areas of resource development. All areas of public, college, university, primary and secondary schools, and special libraries are given up-to-date, critical analysis by experts engaged in the practice of librarianship, in teaching, and in research.

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