Philadelphia Libraries : : A Survey of Facilities, Needs, and Opportunities / / Bibliographical Planning Committee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Bibliographical Planning Committee,
• MitwirkendeR: Read, Conyers,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1942
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (152 p.)

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Survey of the Community -- II. Philadelphia Libraries -- III. Development of Library Coördination -- IV. Union Library Catalogues -- V. The Inter-Library Loan -- VI. Coöperative Cataloguing -- VII. Specialization -- VIII. Other Aspects of Library Cooperation -- IX. The Bibliographical Center -- X. The Library Problem at the University of Pennsylvania -- Appendix A. Philadelphia as a Cultural Center -- Appendix В.I.The Union Library Catalogue of the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area: A Report to the Bibliographical Planning Committee of Philadelphia, July 1, 1940, -- Appendix В. II Extract from "A Bibliographical Center for the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area" -- Appendix С.The A.L.A. Code for Interlibrary Loan -- Appendix D. Inter-Library Loan Questionnaire -- Appendix Ε. Inter-Library Loan Statistics -- Appendix F. Specifications for a University Library -- Supplement: Philadelphia Libraries and their Holdings -- Contents Supplement -- Introduction -- I. Chronology of Philadelphia Libraries to 1900 -- II. Classified List of Philadelphia Libraries -- IV. Guide to Research Materials in Libraries of the Philadelphia Area -- V. Philadelphia Library Holdings -- Index to Libraries -- Index