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E.M. NICHOLSON C.B. (Library and Technical Information Committee of the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy)

Journal of Documentation

ISSN: 0022-0418

Article publication date: 1 January 1961

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Abstract

The national need for comprehensive libraries and museums as a basis for study and particularly as an aid to the advancement of science became fully recognized during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and attracted resources which were fairly substantial in comparison with other public expenditure at the time. In the broad field of science and technology, three national institutions emerged as being of outstanding importance. These were the Library of the British Museum at Bloomsbury, the Library of the Patent Office in Fetter Lane, and the Library of the Science Museum in South Kensington. Of these, the first and the last were parts of national museums while the second grew up as a part of the Patent Office. Not one of them, therefore, was an independent national institution in its own right.

Citation

NICHOLSON, E.M. (1961), "2", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 17 No. 1, pp. 15-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026290

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