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crl-12993	Cannan, Judith P.	Librarianship in Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania: A Brief Survey (Book Review)	1977	1	.pdf	application/pdf	743	39	57	The interesting data supplied in this col- lection of quantitative surveys of scientific review sources are from counts made in the early 1970s from journals held by the Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard and the science and engineering libraries at M.I.T. Insight on such variables as extent of coverage, time lag, duplication patterns, length of review, subject orientation, and the relative emphasis on U.S. and British imprints is furnished in successive chapters for general biomedical books, books on clin- ical medicine, general scientific books, and publications in the special disciplines of mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemis- try, geology, and engineering. Few science librarians would deny the repeated assertions that book reviews are a valuable means of keeping abreast of current research and of evaluating and se- lecting new acquisitions.	cache/crl-12993.pdf	txt/crl-12993.txt