TY - JOUR AB - How long will it be before someone with the power to do something about it realises that many, if not most, academic libraries as they are presently organised are a waste of money, space and staff? Will it be before academic librarians themselves realise that they have sewn the seeds of their own destruction, or is there time for them to sort out the mess they have made of the whole process of higher education? The mess is represented by the short‐loan or reserved‐book collection. VL - 84 IS - 6 SN - 0307-4803 DO - 10.1108/eb060591 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb060591 PY - 1983 Y1 - 1983/01/01 TI - Issues T2 - New Library World PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 95 EP - 103 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -