Comment

Abstract

THE COMMENT by Don Revill in the August issue of NEW LIBRARY WORLD raises a number of interesting points. The allocation of library book funds between departments or between site libraries has always proved a sticky problem, and, as Revill points out, a variety of solutions have been advocated. Of course, the actual division of the funds presents no real problem (everyone is willing to spend the money!) once the bases on which this division is to be made have been decided. Thus the real decisions boil down to judgements of the relative value (to the university? to the state? to the librarian?) of such factors as:

Citation

BROPHY, P., JACKAMAN, P., BELL, F., PEARCE, M., EASTCOTT, C. and WHITE, B. (1974), "Comment", New Library World, Vol. 75 No. 10, pp. 208-218. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb038221