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- The Follett Report was the
first major review of university library provision in the UK
for over twenty-five years. Such was the importance of the Follett
Report that an entire special issue of the British Journal of
Academic Librarianship is here devoted to a comprehensive review
and analysis of it.
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- The Report's objective was not to peer into the dim and distant
future, but to produce a package of recommendations which would
have a direct impact in the near term; they concern the library's
relationship to teaching and research, how librarians fit into
the overall management structure of their institutions, how resources
are provided, and the balance of spending on staff and other
items. Detailed attention is given to the integration of library
services with other aspects of an institution's work, to staff
management in libraries, to library purchasing, and to the development
of performance indicators.
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- Coping with increased demand, the support of research, and
the pervasive role of information technology are central themes
of the study. In seventeen contributions, all by leading academic
librarians and university administrators, the entire range of
contemporary concerns in academic libraries is addressed in detail.
Nobody connected with the university library community should
miss this volume - it demonstrates, in one closely-argued and
lucid source, how the world of university librarianship is changing
and being changed by a multitude of forces.
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- (Originally published as
- The British Journal of Academic Librarianship, 9 (1/2), 1994)
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- £40.00/US$75.00
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- 'This collection of papers makes for an excellent read,
largely because most of the contributors seek 'to inject a note
of critical realism into a debate which has so far floated on
a sea of plaudits from those too closely involved to be objective.'
The astringency, well expressed, is welcome.'
- Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
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- 'Colin Harris is to be congratulated for bringing together
papers from as widespread a collection of reviewers of the Follett
Report as one could have hoped for.'
- Library Review
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