id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-10272 Boyd, Julian P. A Landmark in the History of Library Cooperation in America 1947-04-01 9 .pdf application/pdf 5285 174 41 Confronted with the pro.blem of securing books and other library materials from foreign countries where the channels of trade were not adequate to the task of supplying American research libraries with the material which they require for respond- ing to the needs and deman·ds of scholar- ship, industry, and the government the Librarian of Congress proposed that the possibility be explored bf making use for this purpose of certain of the facilities which are at the command of the Library of Congress APRIL, 1947 and other government libraries for the de- velopment of their own collections. Fortunately for research libraries in America, this point of view was held with strong conviction by the Librarian of Congress and his colleagues. cache/crl-10272.pdf txt/crl-10272.txt