"The Institute was soundly based on the belief that collection
development is the central function of librarianship. A library
by definition is a collection of materials. To bring together
a collection which furthers the objectives of the institution
and meets the needs and purposes of the library's clientele is
the primary purpose of the librarian. While it is true that
modern librarianship gives great and proper emphasis to
reader services, the success of these services depends in
large measure upon the quality of the collection around which
they are built.
One of the speakers, Elizabeth Nesbitt, drew attention to
the aptness of the figure of ""building a collection"" with its
connotation of an architectural construction. Such a construction
is planned, it is orderly, and its results are functional.
This idea became,in a way, the theme of the conference."
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Allerton Park Institute (3rd : 1956)
ISSN
0536-4606
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1448
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