Document (#31593)

Author

Martin, J.V.

Title

Subject specialization in British university libraries : a second survey

Source

Journal of librarianship and information science. 28(1996) no.3, S.159-169

Year

1996

Abstract

Reports results of a survey of UK university libraries to study the nature and degree of suject specialization practised there, as a follow up to a similar study conducted 15 years earlier. For the purposes of comparison the present survey, which was sent to chief librarians, covers those same institutions studied in 1981 and, consequently, does not include the new universities that were formerly polytechnics. Libraries are classified into the same 5 categories of specializations as in the previous study: functional, dual, hybrid, 3 tier, and subject divisional. Notes the main conclusions, including the fact that the conclusion of the earlier study, that subject specialization would become less feasible in future was not realized in the later one. Whereas in the earlier study, the question appeared to be one of whether university libraries could afford the services of subject librarians, 15 years later the challenge to their existence appears even more profound

Location

GB

Area

Wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken

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