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1957: The library as a community information center

Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (no. 4, 1957); Edited by Rose B. Phelps and Janet Phillips

The papers herewith presented were given at the Institute on the Library as a Community Information Center held at Allerton House, Monticello, Illinois on September 29-October 2, 1957, under the auspices of the University of Illinois Library School in cooperation with the University Extension Division. Like its predecessors this institute was planned to appeal to the needs of librarians in small and medium-sized public libraries and to this group, college librarians have been added. However, it seems obvious that meeting the informational needs of such libraries involves a large measure of interlibrary cooperation. Therefore, the subject has been approached not merely from the standpoint of the local development of a reference service but more particularly from that of the cooperative use of resources and trained personnel which should result from a new grouping of small libraries into larger service units.

The complete text of the Institute is available here as well as the individual papers. The papers included here are:

• The Spirit of Reference Service - Robert B. Downs
• Identifying the Library's Public and Community - Peter J. McCormick
• Satisfying the Needs of the Community's Library Users - Harold Q. Harlan
• Interlibrary Organization of Reference Service - Mary Radmacher
• The Specifics of Interlibrary Organization - William V. Jackson
• Cost of Information Service - William S. Budington
• New Sources in the Social Sciences - Doris J. Probst
• New Sources in the Humanities - Helen F. Northup
• Scientific and Technical Reference Works Since 1950 - Joseph C. Shipman
• The Development of a Staff for Reference Work - Margaret Enid Knox
• Publicizing Information and Reference Services - Mildred Bruder
• The Reference Services Division of the American Library Association - Mary N. Barton
• Summary - Rose B. Phelps
  

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