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crl-12878	McElderry, Stanley	Readers and Resources: Public Services in Academic and Research Libraries, 1876-1976	1976	13	.pdf	application/pdf	7196	334	51	As personal · as- sistance came to be recognized as an important feature of library service, it acquired a distinctive name-refer- ence work -and departmental sta- tus.26 Even with the acceptance of the need for reference service, there was no con- sensus on what functions were appropri- ate for the academic library to offer. Although Branscomb's study is not a model for the solution of college library problems through the ap- plication of scientific methods, it did draw extensively upon research studies, and it did question basic assumptions about library service in provocative ways.	cache/crl-12878.pdf	txt/crl-12878.txt