id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-11275 Birnbaum, Henry The Research Library and the Scholar 1959-08-31 10 .pdf application/pdf 7323 414 69 What are their ideas in respect to the future of research libraries? Three types of scholarly or research libraries may be identified: (1) special libraries serving a small area of learning; (2) university libraries which undertake to cover the whole field of scholarship;4 and (3) libraries which fall somewhere in between, such as special collections*)' made up largely of rare and out-of-print books dealing with the same or related subjects.5 Variations in aims and pur- poses of each type of research library occur and influence the collections. cache/crl-11275.pdf txt/crl-11275.txt