Includes index.

Document delivery : a primary service for the nineties / Julie Wessling -- Digital technology : implications for library planning / Karen Horny -- Buying publishers' trade paperbacks versus hardbacks : a preventive conservation strategy for research libraries / Robert Speiser -- The future of library science in higher education : a crossroads for library science and librarianship / C. D. Hurt -- The European Communities : reference works and documentary sources of the Spanish Parliament / Miguel Angel Gonzalo -- Cooperative cataloging : models, issues, prospects / Carol A. Mandel -- The MARC format : private road or public highway? / Patricia B. Culkin -- Strategic quality management in libraries / Donald E. Riggs.

A reference source for developments in the field of libraries and library science. Areas of public, college, university, primary and secondary schools and special libraries are given critical analysis by professionals in the field of librarianship, in teaching and in research. The text is intended for use by professional librarians and information scientists and includes chapters on document delivery, co-operative cataloguing and strategic quality management in libraries.

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