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RECORD REPOSITORIES IN GREAT BRITAIN: THEIR USE

B.R. CRICK (Assistant‐Director of the Survey of Sources for American Studies in Great Britain and Ireland)

Aslib Proceedings

ISSN: 0001-253X

Article publication date: 1 October 1958

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Abstract

It is a pleasant though dangerous task to follow such distinguished speakers who have said most of what could reasonably be said already. In my own approach to the subject I speak somewhat on behalf of a body called the Survey of Sources for American Studies. This was set up, thanks to a generous grant from an American source, by a group of English scholars called the British Association of American Studies, in order to publish a book that would be a survey of and a guide to all records in Great Britain and Ireland that relate in any way to American history or literature. All I would claim for us is that we have tested the repertory of British records, as described by the previous speaker, more thoroughly than any other person or body; and have conducted a certain amount of original research, particularly in the sphere of business records….

Citation

CRICK, B.R. (1958), "RECORD REPOSITORIES IN GREAT BRITAIN: THEIR USE", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 10 No. 10, pp. 247-250. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049672

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