Report of the National Libraries Committee.

  • Great Britain. National Libraries Committee
Date:
1969
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    possible, the NRL should be in central London, particularly convenient to the academic institutions in both Bloomsbury and Aldwych. The CSPC should also be in central London, although they need not neces- sarily be on the same site as the NRL. Because of the exceptionally high cost of storing library material in central London, lightly used material in both the NRL and the CSPC should be outhoused to one or more stores on low cost land. Library Automation The feasibility of applying automatic data processing to both the internal management operations and the services of the reference, lending, bibliographic and administrative divisions of the NLA should be studied in detail and without delay. Research and Training In order to improve the effectiveness of the existing services of the national libraries and to evolve new services as required, a wide range of research should be undertaken and sponsored by the NLA, for which adequate resources should be made available. In so doing, the Authority would assume many of the responsibilities for research now exercised by OSTI. Consideration should be given to the creation of machinery to bring together the major national interests engaged in the development of information tech- niques so as to co-ordinate effectively the total research effort and to assist in the formulation of national policies. The NLA should have an important responsibility for making its research and development widely known to librarians and others. The contribution of the national libraries to professional training should be to supplement the existing arrangements, in collaboration with those now responsible for the training of librarians. NOTE: The functional relationships between the Management Board, the Executive Committee, and the units and their Advisory Councils, which would comprise a National Libraries organisation are illustrated in Fig. 15 following page 134.
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