id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
crl-12631	Dix, William	The Financing of the Research Library	1974	7	.pdf	application/pdf	3760	141	50	In 1967 the American Council of Learned Societies published the follow- ing statement: 'Research libraries may be defined as institutions whose collec- tions are organized primarily to meet the needs of scholars and so to facilitate ef- fective action on the frontier of every field of knowledge, traditional and novel. • In a quite different area, the crea- tion and operation at federal expense of one or perhaps several special libraries to which research libraries could turn with confidence for the loan of journal articles, on the model of the British Na- tional Lending Library for Science and Technology, would provide for access by individual libraries to tens of thou- sands of scholarly journals which might otherwise be unavailable to them.	cache/crl-12631.pdf	txt/crl-12631.txt